Development and dissemination of a manual to promote teacher preservice in health education.

Teacher preparation at the preservice level plays an important role in ensuring implementation of comprehensive school health education in the classroom. This article describes development and dissemination of a resource manual to provide college instructors with materials that support a health education course for teacher education majors. A statewide survey was administered to instructors one year following distribution to examine the dissemination and use of the resource manual. Results suggest provision and dissemination of model materials for preservice education provides an acceptable and feasible step toward curricular change in teacher preservice training in health education. Increased use of the manual was associated with attendance at a training workshop.