| 398 | Thursday, April 1, 2004 |
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| 10:15 AM-12:15 PM | Convention Center:209 |
| Research Consortium |
| Pedagogy Symposium—Detroit Healthy Youth Initiative |
| This session describes research conducted in the Detroit Healthy Youth Initiative, a large-scale Detroit school reform project funded by the U.S. Department of Education aimed at increasing the health of Detroit youth by improving the quality of elementary physical education. Specifically, this project helped 46 physical education teachers learn to implement Michigan Fitness Foundation’s health-related Exemplary Physical Education Curriculum (EPEC) curriculum through various professional development activities including workshops, formal presentations, teacher learning communities, and at-school mentoring – all with the goal of increasing students’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to physical activity, fitness, and social development. To start the session, we will provide a detailed overview of the project describing the teachers, EPEC, the professional development activities, and the research study designs. Next, paper one will overview our initial study, which determined how much EPEC curriculum Detroit teachers used and their general curriculum perceptions as a starting point for crafting subsequent professional development. Then, paper two describes how unique urban and multicultural contextual factors influenced the teachers’ curriculum learning and implementation. Paper three chronicles changes in the teachers’ EPEC curriculum self-efficacy throughout the project. Last, paper four provides initial data on students’ social development. After each paper is presented, we will explain this research in relation to the larger project and on-going phases, discuss the significance of what we learned relative to educational literature, and open a discussion with the audience regarding school/program reform, teacher learning, and school-based research. |
Keyword(s): physical activity, professional development, research
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| Presider: Nate McCaughtry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI |
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Teachers' Usage and Perceptions of EPEC Curriculum as the Starting Point for Change
Nate McCaughtry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Pamela Hodges Kulinna, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Donetta J. Cothran, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
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Learning to Transform EPEC Curriculum for Urban and Multi-Cultural Schools
Nate McCaughtry1, Sara D. Barnard2, Jeffrey J. Martin1 and Donetta J. Cothran3, (1)Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, (2)Royal Oak, MI, (3)Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
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The Influence of EPEC Professional Development Training on Curricular Efficacy
Jeffrey J. Martin1, Sara R. Anderson1 and Pamela Hodges Kulinna2, (1)Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
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Assessment of Elementary School Bullying in Detroit Schools
Joseph A. Dake and Mary H. Barnhart, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI |
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