University/Elementary School Partnerships in Physical Education: Strategies and Benefits

Using Partnerships to Promote Health and Physical Education

“…During the past decade, numerous teacher preparation programs have created partnerships with local school districts to provide field-based experiences for future teachers (Petray & Hill, 2009). Siedentop and Locke (1997) encouraged university physical education teacher education (PETE) programs to work with public schools to prepare future P-12 teachers: PETE can only fulfull its responsibility if it does so in collaboration with good schools in which there are good physical education programs.… If there are not enough good clinical sites…then PETE must assume responsibility for helping to develop and sustain school physical education programs directly….…”