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Health and Physical Education (EDUC90378)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
February
Overview
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This subject readies the generalist classroom teacher for the teaching of Health and Physical Education. It does so by drawing on the skills of high quality classroom teaching and applying these in the conduct of Health and Physical Education, both inside and outside the classroom. While Health and Physical Education is an integrated Learning Area within the Victorian Curriculum, the subject is structured via two parallel paths, taken by all Teacher Candidates, one of which emphasizes teaching of the Personal, Social and Community Health strand, the other the Movement and Physical Activity strand. Both of these paths focus on unit development in order to situate the curriculum content in activities that are meaningful to the children involved.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, Teacher Candidates should be able to:
Graduate Standards refers to the Graduate-level Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
- Explain the relevance of Health and Physical Education knowledge in the Victorian Curriculum (Graduate Standard 2.1)
- Demonstrate familiarity with debates concerning physical activity, sport and Health and Physical Education (Graduate Standards 2.1, 2.2)
- Demonstrate familiarity with the contribution of the Health Promoting Schools framework to development of units of work in Health and Physical Education (Graduate Standards 2.1, 2.2, 3.2)
- Design high quality units of work in Health and Physical Education (Graduate Standards 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6)
- Evaluate units of work in Health and Physical Education (Graduate Standards 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6)
- Teach component parts of a pre-planned unit in Health and Physical Education (Graduate Standards 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4)
- Identify policies relevant to teaching Health and Physical Education in Victorian schools (Graduate Standard 7.2)
Generic skills
This subject will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Clinical reasoning and thinking
- Problem solving
- Evidence based decision making
- Creativity and innovation
- Teamwork and professional collaboration
- Learning to learn and metacognition
- Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base
- Reflection for continuous improvement
- Linking theory and practice
- Inquiry and research
- Active and participatory citizenship.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Teaching Physical Education Essay
| Mid semester | 50% |
Planning Health Education Essay
| End of semester | 50% |
Hurdle requirement: Unit Plan (Group task: 4-5 per group) | Mid semester | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: Successful completion of the two essays each with a minimum 50% pass grade is required to achieve an overall pass in this subject. | N/A | |
Hurdle requirement: Minimum of 80% attendance at all scheduled lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- February
Principal coordinator John Quay Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 18 hours Total time commitment 85 hours Teaching period 21 February 2022 to 6 May 2022 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2022 Census date 18 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 13 May 2022 Assessment period ends 24 June 2022 February contact information
Time commitment details
85 hours
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Collection of Readings.
Quay and Peters (2012). Creative Physical Education. Human Kinetics.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Primary)
Last updated: 10 February 2024