Implementation of Health Education in a Practical Teaching Seminar for the Teacher Training Course in Health and Physical Education: Results of a Nationwide Mail Survey of Four-year Universities

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to clarify the implementation of health education in 22 a practical teaching seminar for teaching profession, whose full-scale application 23 at four-year universities was started in 2013. We carried out a nationwide mail 24 survey of 158 departments at 152 universities offering courses leading to the junior 25 high school and high school teaching certificate (in health and physical education). 26 The response rate was 43.0% (68/158), and after exclusion of one blank response, 27 67 cases were analyzed. Among the participants, 71.6% secured time for health 28 education in a practical teaching seminar. The responses were examined to 29 determine whether the contents of the class were considered suitable for a trial 30 health class (62.5%), whether it reflected a health class in teaching practice (45.8%), 31 whether the content was suitable for health education (39.6%), whether or not it 32 reflected teaching methods in health education (37.5%), whether the design was 33 suitable for devising teaching plans for health classes (33.3%), and whether the 34 material was suitable for health education (27.1%). The various class styles 35 included a trial lesson (48.7%), practice (48.0%), a lecture (33.7%), and others 36 (40.2%). These results were considered to indicate that a practical teaching 37 seminar would contribute to teacher training and development through 38 improvement of curricula in the health education field. 39