School health reform
2012
Snelling, Anastasia M. | Belson, Sarah Irvine | Young, Jessica
National and local polices have positioned schools to play an integral role in addressing the obesity epidemic by establishing preventive activities. Teachers are ideally suited to have a role in this process because teachers have direct and indirect impacts on student health outcomes. The purpose of this exploratory study was to assess the health status of teachers in a large urban school district and understand their beliefs and self-efficacy on the intersection of learning and health for the students they teach. This exploratory study assessed the self-reported health status of 83 teachers in a large, urban school district and investigated teachers' beliefs and self-efficacy on the intersection of learning and health. Results indicate that although teachers surveyed were not practicing daily habits that promote health, they believe it is important to teach health education in schools. The teachers responding to this survey did not feel prepared, empowered, or able to integrate health education into their current curricula. Information from this survey may assist in identifying strategies to actively involve teachers in promoting health so that students will have the opportunity to learn health information in the classroom and observe healthier behaviors modeled by their teachers.
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