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Valeria Varea; Ana Riccetti – Health Education, 2025
Purpose: The school subject of physical education (PE) has experienced a "health turn" globally. However, some university undergraduate programs may need to be revised to adequately equip pre-service teachers to teach about health in schools. The aim of this study was to explore the content of an undergraduate university program in PE…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Education, Undergraduate Study, Preservice Teacher Education
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Lynch, Kathleen; Hill, Heather C.; Gonzalez, Kathryn E.; Pollard, Cynthia – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019
We present results from a meta-analysis of 95 experimental and quasi-experimental pre-K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional development and curriculum programs, seeking to understand what content, activities, and formats relate to stronger student outcomes. Across rigorously conducted studies, we found an…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Curriculum
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
One of the seven objectives of education adopted by the committee on the reorganization of secondary education was "worthy home membership." Adoption of this objective led to a reexamination of provisions for homemaking education. As a result, a number of regional conferences were held at which educational leaders and scientists in various fields…
Descriptors: Family Life, Home Economics, Expertise, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Barton, Keith C. – Canadian Social Studies, 2005
This paper addresses the role of history education in developing a shared sense of identity in modern democracies. It does so by presenting findings from research into children's ideas about history in the United States and Northern Ireland, two settings that share important political and social characteristics with Canada and other pluralist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, History Instruction, Role of Education
Devaney, Elizabeth; O'Brien, Mary Utne; Resnik, Hank; Keister, Susan; Weissberg, Roger P. – Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (NJ3), 2006
Following up on the SEL program guide, "Safe and Sound: An Educational Leader's Guide to Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs," this latest tool for front-line educators provides answers to questions frequently asked by educators, such as, "Now that I have selected a good program, how do I integrate it with the rest of what…
Descriptors: Program Guides, Program Effectiveness, Program Content, Organizational Change
LaPointe, Michella; Davis, Stephen – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2006
In an effort to increase the knowledge about professional development programs that promote strong instructional leaders, the Wallace Foundation recently commissioned a study of innovative principal professional development programs and the policy and funding mechanisms that support them. In fall 2003, the foundation awarded a grant to a team of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Change, Master Teachers, Curriculum