| （School of Physical Education，Central China Normal University，Wuhan 430079，China) Abstract: Social masses’ urgent need for health is the main opportunity for the United States to implement the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP), which contains such contents as high quality school physical education courses, on campus physical activities, off campus physical activities, staff sports participation, as well as family and community participation, gives physical education teachers a new professional role and re-sponsibility, and leads the new trend of physical education teacher education in the United States. The authors in-troduced the experiences of the health education curriculum of West Virginia University under the background of the United States implementing the CSPAP, and put forward the following suggestions for physical education teacher education in China: 1) sports attainment cultivation should be an important dimension in physical education teacher education curriculum objectives; 2) the practice-oriented health education curriculum should be an impor-tant content in physical education teacher education in China; 3) the coordinated cooperation between universities and society as well as elementary and middle schools is an indispensable link in physical education teacher educa-tion curriculum implementation.
Key words: school physical education；health education curriculum；physical education teacher education；Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program；West Virginia University |
