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

    Specialised Health Studies Foundations
  • Unit Code

    PHE6713
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Maria GAMBLE

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's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 114 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
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.

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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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

    Specialised Health Studies Foundations
  • Unit Code

    PHE6713
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Maria GAMBLE

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's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 114 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
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.

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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