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  • Unit Title

    Health and Physical Education in Primary Schools

  • Unit Code

    HPE2240

  • Year

    2027

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Eibhlish O'HARA

Description

This unit presents the area of school based health promotion and physical education, with an emphasis on the development of appropriate knowledge, skills and processes for achieving outcomes in the Health and Physical Education Learning Area. This includes planning and program structure, organisational models of delivery, principles of effective teaching, and teaching and assessment strategies necessary to promote confident participation in sport and recreation.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HPE1010, PHE2105

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Advocate the need for health and physical education in school settings.
  2. Apply health and physical education learning area outcomes to an educational context with a focus on primary school environments.
  3. Demonstrate and analyse development of fundamental and specialised movement skill patterns.
  4. Demonstrate effective teaching and management strategies in health and physical education lessons and different learning environments.
  5. Describe and evaluate current health and physical education principles, issues, models, practices and resources in primary schools.
  6. Describe assessment principles and practices in the health and physical education learning area.
  7. Describe the link between active whole school promotion of health and positive health and educational outcomes in young people.
  8. Work effectively and collaboratively to plan appropriate health and physical education learning experiences that involve integrating knowledge and skills across other curriculum learning areas to meet the health, movement and physical activity needs of learners.

Unit Content

  1. Assessment of student learning and performance in the health and physical education learning area.
  2. Developing principles of leadership, teamwork and collaboration.
  3. Development, analysis and evaluation of fundamental and specialised movement skill patterns.
  4. Examination of contemporary primary school health and physical education issues, programs, models of teaching, practices, and resources.
  5. Exploration of the concept and benefits of health promotion in relation to schools and the links between health and education.
  6. Health and physical education learning area outcomes and supporting curriculum documentation.
  7. Health education, health promotion and physical education: current research and practices.
  8. Management and supervision of health and physical education learning experiences.
  9. Planning, exploration and evaluation of a variety of health and physical education learning experiences and teaching models.

Additional Learning Experience Information

May include lectures, tutorials and participation in practical workshops, collaborative group work and directed reading.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentPlanning in Primary HPE40%
Reflective PracticeTeach and Reflect60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentPlanning in Primary HPE40%
Reflective PracticeTeach and Reflect60%

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 Procedure - 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 Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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