485-356 Learning Area:Health & Physical Ed.3 OPT

485-220 Learning Area: Health & Physical Ed.2 or 485-229 Learning Area:Health & Physical Ed.2 Adv.

Students will engage in the practice-based development of strategies for teaching, planning, management and assessment in physical education and their practical application in primary school settings with an emphasis on inquiry-based approaches to teaching sport and games. It also includes teaching students with special needs and issues of organisation, safety and learning in outdoor settings. The content of the course includes accompanying a five-day school camp, completing a nationally accredited coaching qualification, gaining a level II first aid qualification and the teaching of sport clinics in local primary schools.

Note: to be eligible for assessment in this subject, students must produce documented evidence of holding a current Level 2 First Aid certificate.

Assigned written work totalling no more than 4000 words (100%).

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