This unit (EDC1005) provides you with content knowledge for teaching and leading health, physical activity and wellbeing, social/emotional learning at the early and middle years of childhood. The unit facilitates the development of health literacy skills and knowledge required to make educational settings and communities healthy, safe and active places through building children's health-related skills and understandings. A series of individual, small group and whole group activities will assist students to build confidence in developing positive learning environments and engaging learning activities. You will develop skills and knowledge to engage in critical inquiry and determine how best to support and facilitate young people's learning about health, wellbeing and activity; enhance your own and others' health and physical activity practices; and recognise, respect and connect with the social values and identities of individuals from diverse social and cultural contexts.
Unit details
Location:
Study level:
Undergraduate
Credit points:
12
Unit code:
EDC1005
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Learning Outcomes
| 1. | Review curriculum materials and resources in order to identify approaches and strategies that support children's learning in the areas of health, physical activity and psychosocial well-being. | ||
| 2. | Design health education focused activities that draw on a range of teaching strategies to cater for the diversity of children's interests and capabilities; | ||
| 3. | Collaboratively examine a range of frameworks for health promotion at the early and middle years of childhood; | ||
| 4. | Appraise community-based approaches to health and wellbeing and potential partnerships between educational settings and the community; and | ||
| 5. | Develop activities that foster children's engagement in physical activity |
Assessment
| Assessment type | Description | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Develop a plan for health promotion in an educational setting that links to community programs and resources. | 30% |
| Presentation | Utilise a range of pedagogies to engage in micro-teaching of movement skills to children. | 40% |
| Portfolio | Compilation of personal and professional learning resources and evaluations. | 30% |
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