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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Specialised Health Studies Foundations
  • Unit Code

    PHE6713
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Michelle BARWOOD

Description

This unit introduces students to contemporary issues, knowledge and skills required to engage and teach Health Education in secondary schools. Emphasis will be placed on the nature and purpose of Health Education in strengthening and supporting young peoples' health and wellbeing. The unit explores the role of the subject in the broader delivery of the educational outcomes of the Health and Physical Education (HPE) Learning Area, with specific attention to contextual awareness, best practice models of teaching and learning, philosophies and pedagogies and their alignment to content, sympathetic intervention and inclusive practices to support healthful learning, and planning and instructional strategies necessary for effective teaching and learning in HPE.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HPE3101, PHE4212

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the significance of Health Education teaching and learning in the organisation of an interrelated HPE in Western Australia.
  2. Identify and apply contextual and pedagogical understandings to promote reflective practice, best practice models of teaching and learning, and ways to develop and sustain positive classroom ecologies across a variety of learning contexts in Health Education.
  3. Explore curriculum design, and develop contexutalised Forward Planning documents and lessons to support effective, reflective and quality teaching and learning in Health Education.
  4. Identify the range of contemporary delivery modes and resources to support Health Education delivery in secondary schools including policy and regulatory frameworks.

Unit Content

  1. The current state of Health Education in WA secondary schools and the nature and purpose of Health delivery for health and wellbeing of young Western Australians.
  2. Best practice models, pedagogies, philosophies and classroom management techniques that underpin supportive and inclusive Health Education.
  3. Planning, programming, and instructional strategies to engage students in healthful learning.
  4. Contemporary delivery modes and resources available to support Health Education teaching and learning.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 110 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered10 x 3 hour seminar
Semester 29 x 1 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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCurriculum Planning assignment40%
AssignmentLesson Planning and teaching strategies assignment60%

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Specialised Health Studies Foundations
  • Unit Code

    PHE6713
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Michelle BARWOOD

Description

This unit introduces students to contemporary issues, knowledge and skills required to engage and teach Health Education in secondary schools. Emphasis will be placed on the nature and purpose of Health Education in strengthening and supporting young peoples' health and wellbeing. The unit explores the role of the subject in the broader delivery of the educational outcomes of the Health and Physical Education (HPE) Learning Area, with specific attention to contextual awareness, best practice models of teaching and learning, philosophies and pedagogies and their alignment to content, sympathetic intervention and inclusive practices to support healthful learning, and planning and instructional strategies necessary for effective teaching and learning in HPE.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HPE3101, PHE4212

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the significance of Health Education teaching and learning in the organisation of an interrelated HPE in Western Australia.
  2. Identify and apply contextual and pedagogical understandings to promote reflective practice, best practice models of teaching and learning, and ways to develop and sustain positive classroom ecologies across a variety of learning contexts in Health Education.
  3. Explore curriculum design, and develop contexutalised Forward Planning documents and lessons to support effective, reflective and quality teaching and learning in Health Education.
  4. Identify the range of contemporary delivery modes and resources to support Health Education delivery in secondary schools including policy and regulatory frameworks.

Unit Content

  1. The current state of Health Education in WA secondary schools and the nature and purpose of Health delivery for health and wellbeing of young Western Australians.
  2. Best practice models, pedagogies, philosophies and classroom management techniques that underpin supportive and inclusive Health Education.
  3. Planning, programming, and instructional strategies to engage students in healthful learning.
  4. Contemporary delivery modes and resources available to support Health Education teaching and learning.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 110 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered10 x 3 hour seminar
Semester 29 x 1 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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCurriculum Planning assignment40%
AssignmentLesson Planning and teaching strategies assignment60%

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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