EMR441 Curriculum Method 1: Personal Development, Health & Physical Education (8)

CSU Discipline Area: Curriculum Studies (CURIC)

Duration: One session

Abstract:

This foundation curriculum subject will develop student's critical knowledge and understanding of the Years 7-10 and 11-12 Personal Development Health & Physical Education (PDHPE) syllabus and related Key Learning Area (KLA) inclusions. Pedagogical frameworks will be critiqued while educational practices that accommodate the learning continuum, the transition from Stage 3 to Stage 4 and the diverse needs of students will be applied to both teaching and learning in PDHPE. Various Regulatory Board assessment requirements are examined and applied to the development of authentic learning tasks.

+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations

Session 1
Internal	Bathurst
Distance	Bathurst

Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: EMR441

Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Enrolment restrictions:

Entry into the Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary), Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary), Bachelor of Education (Health and PE), or as determined by the course coordinator.

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

- be able to engage with the current theories and practices that contribute to the critical position of health and physical education as a discipline;
- be able to reflect on and evaluate the rationale for the inclusion of the Key Learning Area (KLA) health and physical education within the whole school curriculum;
- be able to engage accurately with the subject literacies applicable to the KLA;
- be able to analyse and apply the structure, literacies and content of the NSW Stage 4 and 5 and Stage PDHPE syllabus to program planning being mindful of issues of risk and safety;
- be able to select and apply a range of health and physical education teaching strategies and learning experiences to lesson and unit development with particular attention to safety and risk issues;
- be able to develop through participation in contextual learning experiences, principles and practices of effective health and physical education teaching and management that contribute to safe learning environments;
- be able to develop positive learning environments which cater for the needs, interests, cultural and social difference of their learners; including Indigenous Australians, Life Skills learners and students from non-English speaking backgrounds;
- be able to explain current assessment and reporting requirements for secondary students, apply these practices and reflect on the need for authentic PDHPE assessment;
- be able to develop meaningful assessment strategies which engage learners in tasks of intellectual quality that accommodate for learner diversity and cater for different learning styles.

Syllabus:

The subject will cover the following topics:

- The rationale and educational underpinnings of the PDHPE syllabus and the KLA inclusions. - The suite of KLA K-12 syllabus inclusions; Physical Activity and Sports Studies (PASS), Community and Family Studies (CAFS), Exploring Early Childhood and Crossroads. - The role of PDHPE in the continuum of learning K-12 with a focus on the relationship between Stage 3 and Stage 4. - PDHPE literacies related to the suite of PDHPE 7-12 syllabus documents. - Authentic instruction and quality teaching frameworks; such as, Newmann and Whelage (1993), Queensland Productive Pedagogies (QSRLS, 2001), and NSW Quality Teaching (NSW DET, 2003) - Models of pedagogy informed by theorists such as Bloom, Gardner and De Bono which assist in the development of teaching strategies, learning experiences and assessment that accommodate for difference and diversity in health and physical education learners. - Health and physical education process of scope and sequence with attention to factors that impact on program design. - Health and physical education lesson planning and sequencing, appraised against NSW QT assessment guide. - Health and physical education unit of work development. - Assessment and reporting requirements for NSW Board of Studies School Certificate and Higher School Certificate in PDHPE and/or equivalent assessment practices in other education systems. - Risk assessment, policies and resource management practices that apply when teaching practical and theory health and physical education.

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