Leveraging Service Learning in PETE Programs: Training Preservice Teachers on the Afterschool Component of CSPAP

Abstract

The article offers readers an example of how one physical education teacher education (PETE) program created a service-learning course to integrate the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) into the PETE curriculum. A PETE professor formed a partnership with a local school to facilitate physical activity opportunities for children during the existing afterschool program. The partnership provided preservice teachers enrolled in the service-learning course with applied experience integrating one component of CSAP.