Special request: would like to present as a combination study/technique in an hour long session… if this format is not a possibility, the proposal would be a brief oral paper of graduate student research study, presented predominantly by Ms. Randall. This research was completed as a thesis study of school health education teacher's perceptions of necessary attributes for pre-service teachers as they enter student teaching. Would like to begin to replicate study by engaging professional attending the session at AAHPERD as next study sample…while demonstrating the Dephi Technique. Request a one hour session to practice Delphi approach by engaging participants in first round of the study…completing a survey, then discussing thought related to that… following up with second and third round by mail/email later… We would then conclude with the findings of her original study.
Abstract: The problem of this study was to gather judgments from health educators currently in the field in relation to what personal and professional attributes student teachers should possess when entering their student teaching experience. After the panel of health educators determined attributes, they determined which knowledge, skill and dispositions were most important. Invited sample of 63 currently practicing health educators. Four different Wisconsin counties provided the sample with overall response rate of 9.5% (N=6). A modified two round Delphi Technique was used for data collection, along with a nominal rating process. Questionnaire development was based on a list of personal and professional attributes identified through literature review and suggestions made by the first round panel of health educators. Ten personal and professional attributes were identified and clarified in Round One. The top five ranking attributes included health knowledge, lesson/unit planning skill, varied instructional technique awareness, knowledge of stages of student development and knowledge of developmental assets. Recommendations for further research was to expand the number of responders and address other groups influencing student teaching, i.e., university supervisors, cooperating teachers from a wider geographic representation, student teachers themselves at different phases of the student teaching experience. Engaging professionals during the session at the National AAHPERD conference would prove an ideal opportunity to begin a new Delphi study, engaging the range of professionals identified in the recommendations. Interacting in the first round of a Delphi would also provide a technique practice opportunity, followed by findings of the original study.