Teacher Support Related to Student Health and Safety and the Need for Learning in Teacher Preparation Programs from the Perspective of Japanese School Principals

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  • 校長からみた児童生徒の保健・安全への教員の対応場面での課題と教員養成段階における学修の必要性―小学校・中学校・高等学校長を対象とした全国調査―
  • コウチョウ カラ ミタ ジドウ セイト ノ ホケン ・ アンゼン エ ノ キョウイン ノ タイオウ バメン デ ノ カダイ ト キョウイン ヨウセイ ダンカイ ニ オケル ガクシュウ ノ ヒツヨウセイ : ショウガッコウ ・ チュウガッコウ ・ コウトウ ガッコウチョウ オ タイショウ ト シタ ゼンコク チョウサ

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<p>Background: Although teachers are expected to respond to students' health and safe related matters appropriately, it has not been clarified what kind of problems there are.</p><p>Objective: This study identifies problems in teachers' response to students' health and safety from the perspective of the principal as a school health and safety manager and establishes the necessity for teacher preparation.</p><p>Methods: After stratifying elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools across the country by prefecture, 2992 randomly selected schools were targeted. The survey collected information on the type of school, the prefecture, the age, the number of years of experience as a principal, the acquired educational staff license, the gender, the presence/absence of problems in teachers' response to the health and safety of students, and the necessity of teacher preparation.</p><p>Results: In more than 80% of all schools, “students' developmental disabilities” and “mental health care of the students” were cited by principals as those problems of students' health and safety that were most frequently experienced by teachers. The other problems with high values were: “coordination with parents (health),” “first aid for injuries,” and “coordination with parents (safety)” in elementary schools; “first aid for injuries,” “coping with heatstroke,” “coordination with parents (health),” in junior high school; and “the coping to heatstroke,” “cooperation with parents (health),” and “cooperation between teachers (safety),” in high schools.</p><p>　The items that teachers most needed to be prepared for were responding to “developmental disorders,” “mental care,” “allergic diseases,” and “heat stroke.”</p><p>Conclusion: It was clarified that school principals feel the necessity for preparing teachers to be able to respond to “developmental disorders,” “mental care,” and other urgent health and safety problems. It is necessary to scrutinize the contents of health and safety programs need to be learned at the teacher preparedness from surveys such as Yogo teachers in addition to surveys of principals.</p>

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