EDF5815 · Primary health and physical education, humanities and social sciences

Overview

This unit introduces you to the key aspects of the Health and Physical Education (HPE) and Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) learning area within primary schools. The unit critically examines key aspects of the curriculum across the HPE and HASS learning areas and overviews pedagogical and planning approaches that underpin effective teaching in primary settings. The unit comprises two modules. Module 1, the HPE module, will focus on preparing you to plan, teach and assess HPE in the primary classroom. The module will support you to engage with key areas of the HPE curriculum, develop understanding of why HPE is important in primary schools and consider different pedagogical approaches that support student learning within HPE contexts. You will engage with the primary HPE curriculum to design a sequence of learning activities that are linked to a specific topic and learning outcomes. Module 2 will develop your understanding of the HASS learning area exploring how you as a primary teacher can best facilitate learning using single-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary or an integrated approach. You will explore how the HASS learning area is taught in the primary years and engage with pedagogical viewpoints and assessment strategies relevant to the HASS curriculum. You will also learn to implement the HASS curriculum using inquiry-based methodologies and via deliberate connections to real-world issues. Within the unit you will have opportunity to consider how both learning areas relate to themes within the Australian curriculum and related state curriculum frameworks, including cross curriculum priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, environmental sustainability, and engagement with Asia and the world.

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 understanding of the curriculum content of HPE
2. develop inclusive plans of lessons/units of work that align with curriculum and contemporary pedagogical approaches in HPE
3. embed an assessment for learning task in relation to specific HPE curriculum planning and teaching and learning strategies
4. demonstrate knowledge of the HASS curriculum area and appropriate pedagogies and approaches for teaching HASS in primary schools
5. plan lesson sequences in the humanities and social sciences, using knowledge of student learning, content and effective teaching strategies, and a range of resources
6. demonstrate capacity to integrate cross curriculum priorities within the learning areas of HPE and HASS.

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: • 32 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.