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Last updated: 4 June 2021
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online), CBD*
Students commencing in 2021 must be enrolled in course E762
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ECP712
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
Time engaging in learning activities is expected to total a combined equivalent of 8-10 hours per week.
This includes engagement with materials, responses to tasks, independent study and 1 x 2-hour practical and 1 x 3-hour scheduled face-to-face seminar per non-placement teaching week (approx. 6-9 weeks).
This includes engagement with materials, responses to tasks, regular forum posting and responding to others, scheduled synchronous online discussions and independent study during non-placement teaching weeks (approx. 6-9 weeks).
It is highly recommended that you attend scheduled synchronous discussions in CloudDeakin throughout the trimester.
Students who are completing professional experience placements are not required to attend classes or scheduled synchoronous sessions during the placement.
*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery
This unit explores the theories and related issues in the promotion of health, movement and physical education in the primary education context.
The unit will provide an overview of theories of physical and motor development in early and middle childhood pertinent to sound health and physical education pedagogical practice.
The unit is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to critically examine research, theory, practice and curriculum and apply these to health and physical education programs that enhance the health, wellbeing and physical activity outcomes of children in the primary school years.
Students will be able to build competence and confidence to effectively teach primary health and physical education and evaluate health education and movement approaches relevant to the primary years.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
Critically appraise and contextualise health education and wellbeing initiatives pertinent to primary school aged children through the lens of curriculum, health policy and contemporary research
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment 1 (Individual) - Health Education Critical Inquiry
Assessment 2 (Individual) - Physical Education Portfolio
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.
Essential Learning Resource:
Dudley, D, Telford, A, Peralta, L, Stonehouse, C, & Winslade, M 2018, Teaching Quality Health & Physical Education, n.p.: South Melbourne, Victoria., Cengage.
Miller, J, Wilson-Gahan, S & Garrett, R 2018, Health and physical education: preparing educators for the future (3rd ed.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
DU Harvard Referencing https://www.deakin.edu.au/students/studying/study-support/referencing/harvard
Recommended Learning Resource:
Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority 2019, The Australian Curriculum – Health and Physical Education F-10 curriculum, https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/
Garvis, S & Pendergast, D 2017, Health and wellbeing in childhood, Cambridge, United Kingdom???; Port Melbourne, VIC Cambridge University Press.
*The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: ECP713 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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