EEH101 - Health and Physical Education Studies
Unit details
Year | 2025 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong) Note: Enrolments close early March. Student enrolment quotas apply to this unit |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Cassandra Iannucci |
Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E377 Students from other courses may take the unit with permission of the course director |
Campus contact: | Kate Moncrieff - Burwood (Melbourne) Cassandra Iannucci - Waurn Ponds (Geelong) |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | ESH101 |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 1.5-hour on-campus lecture per week 1 x 1.5-hour on-campus practical experience (workshop) per week |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
This unit gives you, as pre-service teachers, a knowledge base from which to examine teaching and learning in health and physical education. The unit provides you with opportunities to experience and teach physical education lessons as well as reflect upon your teaching experience and what you have learned.
During this unit you will develop a beginning knowledge base that will provide you with a confident level to develop and maintain a positive and safe learning environment for young people and teach physical education lessons in an exciting and meaningful way.
This unit is your first introduction to working with young children in a health and physical education setting and is intended to:
- provide you with some basic teaching and managerial strategies to facilitate student learning
- assist you to design, develop and maintain a safe and positive learning environment
- develop your capacity as a pre-service teacher to reflect on your teaching and the impact your planning and teaching has on the learning of young people
Learning Outcomes
ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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ULO1 | Apply appropriate content-specific teaching strategies when leading a learning experience and/or lesson in health and/or physical education | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO5: Problem Solving |
ULO2 | Apply effective task and behavioural directions (instructions) to lead activities (learning experience/s) in a health and/or physical education lesson | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO5: Problem Solving |
ULO3 | Examine strategies that support students’ physical safety within a school and/or movement space | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication |
ULO4 | Sequence task progressions for student learning within a health and/or physical education lesson | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO6: Self-management |
ULO5 | Critically self-reflect on their teaching experience | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO6: Self-management |
ULO6 | Apply a range of preventative management strategies in a health and/or physical education context to reduce off-task behaviour | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO5: Problem Solving |
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 - Plan for establishing a safe learning environment | 800 words or equivalent | 20% | Week 6 |
Assessment 2 (Group) - Micro-teaching Lessons | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Week 7 |
Assessment 3 - Reflective report | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Week 8 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for EEH101 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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