Physical Education and Health Birth - 8 Years

Course aim

To foster dynamic physical education and health development that perceives the child from a socially-focused progressively self-regulating and competent perspective.

Course content

Components of appropriate curriculum practice and instructional play-based innovations facilitating emergent competencies and self management through active involvement, observation and modelling; constructing learning environments with specific outcomes (adaptive to needs, interests and capacities); facilitation of collaborative choices through problem-finding, problem addressing and consolidation. Analysis of individual and dispositional factors, organisational contexts and constraints to facilitate teaching and learning principles adapted to particular contexts. Transforming theory into practice mapped across learner domains of disciplinary content, curriculum and assessment, contexts and settings

Textbook(s)

Gallahue, D & Ozmun, J 2012, Understanding motor development: infants, children, adolescents, adults, 7th ed, McGraw Hill, New York

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Lecture	1 hour x 12 weeks
Workshop	2 hours x 12 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, DISTANCE EDUCATION
External	10 hours x 13 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

PE unit plan, Plan, Practical peer teaching lesson evaluation and reflection

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.