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

    Health and Physical Education Foundations
  • Unit Code

    PHE6711
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Andrew Charles JONES

Description

This unit prepares students for planning and implementing Health and Physical Education (HPE) in secondary schools. A study of the nature and purpose of HPE across secondary schooling provides the context for exploring how principles of teaching, learning and assessment apply to HPE. Emphasis is given to the development of personal skills, instructional skills and teaching strategies necessary for the effective teaching and learning of health and physical education.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHE4211

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the nature (content) and purpose (outcomes) of curricular and co-curricular HPE in secondary schooling, with particular attention to the interrelated place of Physical Education and Health Education in the organisation of the HPE learning area.
  2. Apply pedagogical understandings and practical skills to manage teaching and learning in a safe, supportive and inclusive HPE environment with the purpose of achieving outcomes.
  3. Explore curriculum design, and develop forward planning documents and lessons to support effective, reflective and quality teaching and learning in HPE.
  4. Develop, implement and refine assessment and reporting approaches suited to a range of curriculum models, instructional formats, content outcomes and stakeholders in HPE.

Unit Content

  1. The nature and purpose of HPE in secondary schooling, and the current state of HPE in Australia and Western Australia.
  2. Managerial, organisational and instructional strategies to support safe, inclusive practice in HPE learning environments.
  3. Planning lessons, units and forward planning documents in HPE, utilising a range of pedagogies and contexts.
  4. Assessment, reporting and reflective practice in HPE.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 110 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Practical workshops, Web-based support.

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
AssignmentPlanning assignment60%
Literature ReviewLiterature review40%

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

    Health and Physical Education Foundations
  • Unit Code

    PHE6711
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Andrew Charles JONES

Description

This unit prepares students for planning and implementing Health and Physical Education (HPE) in secondary schools. A study of the nature and purpose of HPE across secondary schooling provides the context for exploring how principles of teaching, learning and assessment apply to HPE. Emphasis is given to the development of personal skills, instructional skills and teaching strategies necessary for the effective teaching and learning of health and physical education.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHE4211

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the nature (content) and purpose (outcomes) of curricular and co-curricular HPE in secondary schooling, with particular attention to the interrelated place of Physical Education and Health Education in the organisation of the HPE learning area.
  2. Apply pedagogical understandings and practical skills to manage teaching and learning in a safe, supportive and inclusive HPE environment with the purpose of achieving outcomes.
  3. Explore curriculum design, and develop forward planning documents and lessons to support effective, reflective and quality teaching and learning in HPE.
  4. Develop, implement and refine assessment and reporting approaches suited to a range of curriculum models, instructional formats, content outcomes and stakeholders in HPE.

Unit Content

  1. The nature and purpose of HPE in secondary schooling, and the current state of HPE in Australia and Western Australia.
  2. Managerial, organisational and instructional strategies to support safe, inclusive practice in HPE learning environments.
  3. Planning lessons, units and forward planning documents in HPE, utilising a range of pedagogies and contexts.
  4. Assessment, reporting and reflective practice in HPE.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 110 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Practical workshops, Web-based support.

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
AssignmentPlanning assignment60%
Literature ReviewLiterature review40%

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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