Evaluation on the Effectiveness of Several Types of Teacher Trainings for Drug Abuse Prevention

随着青少年中吸烟和饮酒等药物滥用的日益严重，人们对在学校进行有效的预防教育的期望也越来越高。近年来，在日本，基于行为科学理论的药物滥用预防项目得到了开发和广泛应用。但是，在开展这类活动时，教师培训起着非常重要的作用。作者策划并举办了参与式研讨会，并对其效果进行了评估，以帮助教师掌握正确开展药物滥用预防活动的能力。考虑到教委会的需要，我们开发了三种类型的工作坊(工作坊A由多名培训者连续两天进行10小时，工作坊B由一名培训者连续两天进行7.5小时，工作坊C由多名培训者在3天内进行9小时，间隔数天)，并对其效果进行了比较。根据工作坊前后的调查结果，大多数参与者对工作坊的评价是积极的，对开展预防教育有信心的比例显著增加。此外，随着教师更多地感到工作坊容易理解和愉快，他们往往对自己的教学能力充满信心。从这些结果可以看出，讲习班的质量比培训人员的数量等更重要。

Along with the increasing seriousness of drug abuse including smoking and alcohol drinking among adolescents, expectations are increasing for effective prevention education in schools. Recently in Japan, drug abuse prevention programs based on the theory of behavior sciences have been developed and widely used. But, to distribute such programs, trainings for teachers play a very important role.The authors planned and conducted participation type workshops and evaluated the effects of them to help teachers acquire the abilities to conduct drug abuse prevention programs properly. Considering the needs of board of education, we have developed three types of workshops (workshop A was carried out by multiple trainers for 10 hours in two consecutive days, workshop B was carried out by one trainer for 7.5 hours in two consecutive days, workshop C was carried out by multiple trainers for 9 hours in 3 days with the interval of a few days) and compared the effectiveness of them.Based on the results of investigations before and after the workshops it was shown that most of the participants evaluated the workshops positively, and the ratio of persons who were confident in conducting the prevention education increased dramatically. In addition, as teachers more felt that the workshops were easy to understand and enjoyable, they tended to be confident in their teaching abilities. From these results, it has been concluded that the quality of workshop are more important than the number of trainers etc.