One of the challenges in in-service teacher education is how teachers can be given professional development (PD) that enables them to respond to national curriculum and policy change. In recent years primary teachers in New Zealand have been inundated with Ministry of Education-funded professional development programmes to help them implement a plethora of curriculum policy and reform initiativ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association of physical activity facilities and extracurricular sports activities in schools with physical activity among adolescents. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We used data collected for the National Survey of School Health in 2012. The national representative sample comprised 109,104 Brazilian students from 2,842 schools. We calculated the prevalence of partici...

The Nature of Teacher Research Barbara Henderson, PhD, is a professor of education at San Francisco State University. She co-coordinates the MA program in Education, Early Childhood Education Concentration, and teacher graduate and credential classes. Her interests are teacher research and children’s development in cultural contexts. She is also co-editor of the online teacher research journal ...

Research has shown an increased attention towards Reflective Practice as a successful aspect in the professional development of Physical Education Teacher Education. Notwithstanding, there is lack empirical research about how teachers’ reflective skills should be developed this context. The aim systematic review was to understand what and been studied physical education skills, such strategies ...