Learning Area:Health & Physical Ed.4 OPT

Subject EDUC40001 (2011)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2011.

Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 4 (Undergraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2011:

Year Long, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable

Parkville, on-campus.

Timetable can be viewed here. For information about these dates, click here.
Time Commitment: Contact Hours: 12 x 2 hour workshops plus 3 days camp
Total Time Commitment: Not available
Prerequisites:

485-356 Learning Area:Health & Physical Ed.3 OPT
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements: This subject requires a minimum of 80 per cent attendance at classes in order to complete the subject satisfactorily.

Coordinator

Dr John Quay

Contact

Education Student Centre
Subject Overview:

This subject has been designed to involve you in a range of larger projects that immerse you in three major practical aspects of teaching and learning in health and physical education. The three main projects that structure the subject are: (1) planning and conducting a mini-olympics event for a local primary school; (2) planning and conducting a school camp for a local primary school; and (3) analyzing, both theoretically and practically, a way of teaching physical education that incorporates five widely accepted but usually separate models of teaching physical education into the one cohesive program.
Objectives:

Through successful completion of this subject students should gain an awareness, appreciation and understanding of:

  • The complexity of event management that involves groups larger than their normal class, including coordinating the input of other school teachers.
  • The VELS structure particularly in relation to the domains most closely connected to health and physical education in the personal, physical and social learning strand.
  • The importance of clearly articulating a rationale for each activity undertaken, making the connection between curriculum and child.
Assessment:

Assigned written work totalling no more than 4000 words (100%).

To be eligible for assessment in this subject, students must produce documentary evidence of having obtained a current Austswim Teacher of Swimming Certificate.
Prescribed Texts:

Prescribed Texts:

Students must purchase the prescribed subject reader.
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.
Fees Information: Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date
Generic Skills:

Through successful completion of this subject students should gain skills related to:

• Organising larger events connected with school, including the coordination of other staff, parents and children beyond the normal classroom.

• Planning units of work that encompass larger projects and longer time frames.

• Interpreting VELS in connection with their teaching.

Related Course(s): Bachelor of Education (Primary)

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