Demonstration Development Grants
Three AACTE member institutions that are dedicated to incorporating issues of HIV/AIDS prevention into their teachers' education programs have each been awarded a two-year grant to enhance the practical, pedagogical, and curricular dimensions of health and teacher education at each of the demonstration sites. The institutions awarded the grants were California State University, Dominguez Hills, University of Puerto Rico and Langston University. Each site will be situated in and produce teachers for PK-12 school systems that serve students in high-risk urban or rural environments. The sites will incorporate curriculum material developed by AACTE in their activities and work collaboratively as a coalition of teacher education programs that advances HIV/AIDS prevention. AACTE will re-compete the awards again in year three.

Infusing Contemporary Health Issues into Teacher Preparation Programs:
Using National Subject Area Standards as a Framework
A Commissioned Paper by
Beth Pateman
University of Hawaii, Manoa

This publication considers how essential health-related information can be incorporated into teacher education programs and PK-12 curricula. It establishes a basis for linking critical child and adolescent health-risk issues with recently developed national subject area standards for American education in health or other curricular areas. Current national initiatives to refocus school-based health education on public health priorities and on opportunities for incorporating contemporary health issues into teacher education programs and PK-12 curricula are described.

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