EDF5171 · Health and physical education in the secondary years A

Overview

This unit prepares you to teach school Health and Physical Education (HPE) from Years 7 to 10. It focuses in particular on the ‘Movement and Physical Activity’ strand of the Australian/Victorian Curriculum for HPE. Weaving theory and practice, workshops are designed to challenge your thinking about HPE, and provide you with essential knowledge and skills to critically engage with a range of frameworks, models and approaches that will support innovative and evidence-informed planning, teaching and assessment. You will be provided with opportunities to further develop and consolidate your pedagogical content knowledge, and will engage with ongoing processes of assessment for learning. Overall, this unit will enhance your capacity to plan, teach and assess within HPE, and lay the foundations for relevant life-long learning and professional development.

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

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. identify and critically analyse relevant policy, theories and research, and apply these to pedagogical practice
2. design relevant curriculum and pedagogy that responds to diverse learner needs
3. understand and articulate the role of ethical relationships with local and professional communities that support teacher professional development, and student learning
4. use highly effective communication skills to communicate ideas and demonstrate skills.

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 Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements.

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