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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching Health Education

  • Unit Code

    HPE4020

  • Year

    2017

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Joan Geraldine STRIKWERDA-BROWN

Description

School Health Education (HE) as a foundation for implementation of health promotion initiatives is the major focus of this unit. Issues that impact upon young peoples well-being, including risk-taking behaviour, will be examined. Students will be investigating effective and appropriate teaching strategies and sourcing and evaluating a range of curriculum documents and services for planning and teaching Health and Physical Education (HPE) in the integrated classroom. Structures, applications and effects of health promotion will be researched.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from either HPE1010 or HPE2240

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ERH2203

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse a range of relevant resources and community health agencies and their use and relevance in the teaching of HPE in schools.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the varied health needs of today's primary and early secondary students.
  3. Describe structure, applications and effects of health promotion.
  4. Discuss a range of health-related issues, including risk-taking behaviours, that impact upon young people's well being.
  5. Enlist a variety of strategies and teaching approaches to assist their students to make informed decisions about their own and others health.
  6. Plan, teach and evaluate sequences of lessons, with an emphasis on integration of the Health and Physical Education learning area with other learning areas.
  7. Use information technology to enhance HE teaching.

Unit Content

  1. Application of research and information technology in relation to teaching HE.
  2. Examination and evaluation of a range of HE curriculum models and teaching and assessment strategies.
  3. Health promotion issues such as school environment, school health services, health policy and involvement of the school community.
  4. National and international trends related to young peoples health issues and the theoretical underpinnings of particular approaches to HE.
  5. Overview and analysis of HE curriculum support materials and community health agencies.
  6. Planning and evaluating a series of health lessons for integrated HPE teaching.
  7. Practical activities and projects linked to specific health-related issues, including physical activity, nutrition, drug education, sexuality, environmental and social/emotional, in relation to appropriate teaching strategies and HPE curriculum development and teaching.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars, discussions, practical workshops, ICT, peer teaching, group work, class presentations and problem based learning.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationOral presentation and report45%
AssignmentResources and Strategies55%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationOral presentation and report45%
AssignmentResources and Strategies55%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching Health Education

  • Unit Code

    HPE4020

  • Year

    2017

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Joan Geraldine STRIKWERDA-BROWN

Description

School Health Education (HE) as a foundation for implementation of health promotion initiatives is the major focus of this unit. Issues that impact upon young peoples well-being, including risk-taking behaviour, will be examined. Students will be investigating effective and appropriate teaching strategies and sourcing and evaluating a range of curriculum documents and services for planning and teaching Health and Physical Education (HPE) in the integrated classroom. Structures, applications and effects of health promotion will be researched.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from either HPE1010 or HPE2240

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ERH2203

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse a range of relevant resources and community health agencies and their use and relevance in the teaching of HPE in schools.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the varied health needs of today's primary and early secondary students.
  3. Describe structure, applications and effects of health promotion.
  4. Discuss a range of health-related issues, including risk-taking behaviours, that impact upon young people's well being.
  5. Enlist a variety of strategies and teaching approaches to assist their students to make informed decisions about their own and others health.
  6. Plan, teach and evaluate sequences of lessons, with an emphasis on integration of the Health and Physical Education learning area with other learning areas.
  7. Use information technology to enhance HE teaching.

Unit Content

  1. Application of research and information technology in relation to teaching HE.
  2. Examination and evaluation of a range of HE curriculum models and teaching and assessment strategies.
  3. Health promotion issues such as school environment, school health services, health policy and involvement of the school community.
  4. National and international trends related to young peoples health issues and the theoretical underpinnings of particular approaches to HE.
  5. Overview and analysis of HE curriculum support materials and community health agencies.
  6. Planning and evaluating a series of health lessons for integrated HPE teaching.
  7. Practical activities and projects linked to specific health-related issues, including physical activity, nutrition, drug education, sexuality, environmental and social/emotional, in relation to appropriate teaching strategies and HPE curriculum development and teaching.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars, discussions, practical workshops, ICT, peer teaching, group work, class presentations and problem based learning.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationOral presentation and report45%
AssignmentResources and Strategies55%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationOral presentation and report45%
AssignmentResources and Strategies55%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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