Learning Area:Health & Physical Ed.4 OPT

This subject is not offered in 2012.

485-356 Learning Area:Health & Physical Ed.3 OPT

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.

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.

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:

Students must purchase the prescribed subject reader.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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.