Teacher Preparation and Comfort among NC Health and PE Teachers

Adolescence is a critical period for adopting a healthy lifestyle, avoiding risky behaviors, and preventing disease. Most children will receive the majority of their health education through public school classes. These health classes provide information regarding physical, mental, and emotional health and teach lifelong skills to promote positive health outcomes. Ensuring that health and physical education teachers are receiving proper preparation, education, and professional development to implement the North Carolina Healthful Living Standards is essential to providing youth with accurate and effective health information. Through this study we hope gain a better understanding of the relationship between teacher preparation and teacher comfort for secondary public school health and physical education instructors in North Carolina.