Word: teaching
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Whitten currently teaches Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology," and is in the process of writing a book with Professor of Anthropology Irven DeVore and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Terrence W. Deacon, who also teach the course...
...might imagine, there are plenty of funny scenes in this play. One of the more hysterical ones is the musical number led by Merlin (Richard Claflin), who is the father of Thumb. Claflin leads the audience in a rowdy rendition of "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" while simultaneously leading the cast in a chorus kick-line. Equally ridiculous is the light saber battle scene between Thumb and rival Lord Grizzle (Carl Bj Fox). Also garnering a high reading on the laughmeter is the cameo appearance of the ghost of Gaffer Thumb (Eric Olsen), who surfaces...
Having so many types of plants together in one place provides students from all over Boston and New England with an opportunity to study botanic specimens first-hand. For the past six years, the arboretum has run programs with Boston and Cambridge public schools that teach plant and tree identification to grade school students...
...arboretum's programs for Boston-area students, says the work that schools do with the arboretum ranges from annual field trips to coordinated year-long programs. In the long-term programs, which the arboretum conducts mainly with local schools, Sylverson and other arboretum staffers visit the classroom and teach about the flora with which students later have contact...
Like many aspects of glasnost, however, actual reform of government attitudes toward sex is lagging behind the change in official doctrine. Three years after sex education became mandatory in schools, barely any instructors are qualified to teach it. Those assigned to do so are often too embarrassed even to use animals to illustrate their points. Instead, they talk about sexual reproduction in plants or avoid the topic altogether. The effect is that many schools essentially have no sex education at all. Though that is mostly the result of sheer backwardness, some of the delay also stems from active opposition. Just...