EDF4096 · Senior secondary health education

Overview

This unit builds upon previous health and physical education discipline and curriculum units studied and prepares you to teach school health education, specifically Health and Human Development in the senior years. It provides you with essential skills and knowledge to critically engage with some of the historical, political and pedagogical debates and issues in school health education. The unit begins by exploring health education theory, pedagogy and practice at VCE level insisting that you remain reflexive of your views, experiences and practices as well as the learning needs of diverse senior school learners. The unit examines national and international education and health policies, health needs and interests of young people, critical health education pedagogies and assessment, and relevant research literature with the aim of thinking critically about learning and teaching in VCE health education. Working collaboratively and independently, you will review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise your knowledge and skills as you work towards advancing your capacities in this field. In the process you will further develop content knowledge at VCE level in health education, thus preparing you for the senior school health education context.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. demonstrate thorough and deep content knowledge and pedagogical skills of relevance to teaching senior school health education
2. apply a critical sociocultural view of health education in senior years and in relation to professional practices
3. draw upon, analyse and critique relevant historical, political, and contemporary evidence based literature in health education to make claims and justify planning choices and/or pedagogical practices
4. display accurate programming skills in the navigation of curriculum documents and policies in order to plan for and design lessons, assessment tasks and/or resources appropriate for senior secondary health education and senior school students
5. communicate ideas to others using an appropriate range of verbal and nonverbal communication strategies and collaborative techniques.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.