School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Teaching Physical Education: Linking the Oval, the Classroom and the Community
  • Unit Code

    HPE4300
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr David RHODES

Description

This unit examines the role of the Health and Physical Education Learning Area in facilitating the holistic development and wellbeing of students, exploring the interconnectedness of physical activity, mental health and community engagement. Through this unit, pre-service teachers will extend their practical and theoretical knowledge in teaching a variety of sports and physical activities, with a major focus on the upper primary and early secondary years of schooling. Enhancing school/community links within rural and regional settings will be investigated.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Formulate a personal philosophy for the provision of quality Health and Physical Education teaching.
  2. Apply strategic thinking for understanding approaches to planning for teaching Health and Physical Education in upper primary and early secondary settings.
  3. Communicate an understanding of the personal skills, strategies, tactics and knowledge needed to participate in a selection of individual, group and team activities.
  4. Evaluate the organisation and resourcing of school Health and Physical Education programs, including the role of the Physical Education specialist/coordinator.
  5. Investigate methods of enhancing student outcomes within and beyond the Health and Physical Education learning area, including developing community links in rural and regional settings.

Unit Content

  1. Qualities and strategies of the effective Health and Physical Education teacher, through the application of research on teaching Health and Physical Education.
  2. Critical reflection on processes in integrated lesson plan-teach-review experiences.
  3. Evaluation of Health and Physical Education teaching approaches, models and resources that promote teaching for understanding.
  4. Involvement in practical sports-specific teaching/coaching methodology, including selected sports and athletics.
  5. Investigation of the roles and responsibilities of HPE teachers and coordinators in primary and secondary schools.
  6. Exploration of links between Health and Physical Education in the school and the community particularly in rural and regional settings.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayReflective essay completed individually, outlining personal philosophy for the provision of quality health and physical education50%
AssignmentProgram evaluation, completed individually or in pairs 50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayReflective essay completed individually, outlining personal philosophy for the provision of quality health and physical education50%
AssignmentProgram evaluation, completed individually or in pairs 50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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