At the elementary school level health instruction is organized and conducted by the classroom teacher. In secondary schools it has been traditional to assign the responsibility for health education to physical education teachers. A pattern frequently observed had one man functioning as teacher for physical and health education classes and coach for athletics. In the 1960's a trend developed to make health education a separate course, taught by a specially trained teacher.
The amended Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act began to provide funds for social studies and for teacher education in civics. And finally, the National Council for the Social Studies, sensing public Alarm and even professional disillusionment as to the efficacy of school programs, conducted a national survey, the results of which were published in 1967 in Promising Practices in Civic Education.
Qualification. It is rare for an English school-teacher to hold any degree beyond the bachelor's. The granting of the bachelor of education degree by colleges of education is made possible by the fact that all the colleges, whether originally provided by the churches or the local authorities, are associated with their nearest university through the university institutes of education, which have a responsibility for guaranteeing their academic standards as well as promoting the interchange of ideas.
In Scotland qualifications are more exacting.
At the elementary school level health instruction is organized and conducted by the classroom teacher. In secondary schools it has been traditional to assign the responsibility for health education to physical education teachers. A pattern frequently observed had one man functioning as teacher for physical and health education classes and coach for athletics. In the 1960's a trend developed to make health education a separate course, taught by a specially trained teacher.