Planning, teaching and learning in health and physical education

This unit develops and enhances your Health and Physical Education (HPE) teaching practice. With its focus on the art of planning effective, learner centred teaching and learning experiences that are goal oriented, developmentally sequenced, and content specific the unit begins by making key curriculum connections and ends with opportunities to design, plan and share shifts in practice over time. Central to this is the exploration of the various dimensions of the teaching and learning cycle as it pertains to HPE including setting learning goals, making content choices, scaffolding and sequencing learning episodes, engaging learners to maximize learning opportunities, building pedagogical and assessment knowledge, and cultivating reflective and feedback skills. You will also examine strategies for teaching numeracy and literacy within HPE contexts. In this unit, careful consideration will be given to your needs in your role as a policy actor who has the potential to influence and challenge the discipline and their contexts through effective planning for teaching and learning in HPE.