ABOUT 600 life sciences teachers from across the Western Cape will be given "intensive" training over the next four years so they can learn how best to teach evolutionary biology to high school students.
The Teaching Biology Project was launched at the new offices of the Africa Genome Education Institute in Claremont yesterday. Western Cape Education MEC Yousuf Gabru, whose department is also part of the project, was the guest speaker.
Africa Genome Education Institute head Wilmot James said yesterday it had come to his attention three or four years ago that life sciences teachers wanted training in the field of evolutionary biology. "I put together a project to reach all the life sciences teachers in the Western Cape," he said.
The Teaching Biology Project is funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which James said had committed a total of R160 million to several education focus areas in the Western Cape over a four-year period, including the Teaching Biology Project that will cost R16m. "It's an extraordinary commitment by a foreign government," he said.
James said pre-service training had already started at UWC and would ensure that graduating teachers were equipped to teach evolutionary biology before they even stepped into classrooms
The Teaching Biology Project was launched at the new offices of the Africa Genome Education Institute in Claremont yesterday. Western Cape Education MEC Yousuf Gabru, whose department is also part of the project, was the guest speaker.
Africa Genome Education Institute head Wilmot James said yesterday it had come to his attention three or four years ago that life sciences teachers wanted training in the field of evolutionary biology. "I put together a project to reach all the life sciences teachers in the Western Cape," he said.
The Teaching Biology Project is funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which James said had committed a total of R160 million to several education focus areas in the Western Cape over a four-year period, including the Teaching Biology Project that will cost R16m. "It's an extraordinary commitment by a foreign government," he said.
James said pre-service training had already started at UWC and would ensure that graduating teachers were equipped to teach evolutionary biology before they even stepped into classrooms
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