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Implementation of Comprehensive School Health Education in Elementary Schools: Focus on Teacher Concerns
Author(s) -
Hausman Alice J.,
Ruzek Sheryl Burt
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1995.tb03352.x
Subject(s) - preparedness , feeling , curriculum , psychology , medical education , school health education , focus group , teacher education , mathematics education , primary education , health education , pedagogy , medicine , public health , nursing , sociology , political science , social psychology , anthropology , law
This paper reports on the effectiveness of a teacher development project in promoting implementation of a comprehensive school health education curriculum among inner city elementary school teachers. The longitudinal evaluation design provides empirical data on the efficacy of a strategy to reduce teachers' concerns and promote use of the curriculum at the classroom level. Data were collected at various points throughout the project period from 156 school staff from five schools. Results from analyses of repeated measures of teachers' feelings of preparedness to teach specific health topics, and the observed relationship between both high and improved feelings of preparation and reported health teaching suggest that teacher development efforts including training and ongoing reinforcement to increase teachers' feelings of preparedness can have significant classroom effects.