Unit Outline
EPR240
Introduction to HPE
Semester 1, 2024
Jennifer McMahon
Faculty of Education
College of Arts, Law and Education
CRICOS Provider Code: 00586B

Unit Coordinator
Jennifer McMahon
Email: Jennifer.McMahon@utas.edu.au
 

What is the Unit About?
Unit Description
This unit is the first of two Health and Physical Education units, undertaken in sequence. One purpose of this unit is to develop your knowledge in relation to a variety of pedagogical considerations which are not only pertinent to Health and Physical Education teaching but also general classroom teaching, ensuring each student is catered for not only physically but also emotionally, socially, mentally, and spiritually. Another purpose is to develop your knowledge and skills for planning, teaching, and learning across the health and physical education curriculum including being able to integrate it with other curriculum areas. Skills that are emphasised in this unit are those that have been identified by the Teachers Registration Board (TRB), as well as national teaching bodies, as important by the time you graduate with your teaching degree. These include demonstrating aspects of professional knowledge, professional relationships, and professional practice.
Intended Learning Outcomes
As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.
On completion of this unit, you will be able to:
1.
Demonstrate knowledge in relation to the national curriculum and contemporary literature relevant to teaching health and physical education programs in the contemporary school curriculum context.
2.
Demonstrate knowledge of teaching approaches appropriate for health and physical education
3.
critically reflect on how past practices have positioned you as a HPE educator in the present day, and demonstrate strategies that you will apply to future practice that will assist you in either adopting or critically these past experiences.
4.
design a range of HPE teaching approaches that cater for student diversity as well as their spiritual; emotional; social; mental and physical health.
Requisites
REQUISITE TYPE
REQUISITES
Pre-requisite
EDU102 OR ESH102
Alterations as a result of student feedback
N/A.
 
 

Teaching arrangements
ATTENDANCE MODE
TEACHING TYPE
LEARNING ACTIVITY
CONTACT HOURS
FREQUENCY
On Campus
Tutorial
Face-to-face tutorials are made available on most weeks of the semester which are conducted at both Launceston and Cradle Coast Campuses. Please refer to Mylo for specific details of these arrangements.
1.50
Weekly
Online
Lecture (Online)
A weekly online lecture will be pre-recorded and made available on Mylo for both online students and face-to-face students.
1
Weekly
Tutorial (Online)
There will be weekly online [asynchronous] tutorial activities for you to complete in your own time and at your own pace.
1.50
Weekly
Attendance / engagement expectations
If your unit is offered On campus, it is expected that you will attend all on-campus and onsite learning activities. This is to support your own learning and the development of a learning community within the unit. If you are unable to attend regularly, please discuss the situation with your course coordinator and/or our UConnect support team.

If your unit is offered Online, it is expected you will engage in all those activities as indicated in the Unit Outline, including any self-directed learning.

If you miss a learning activity for a legitimate reason (e.g., illness, carer responsibilities) teaching staff will attempt to provide alternative activities (e.g., make up readings) where it is possible.
 
 
 
 

How will I be Assessed?
 
For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.
Assessment schedule
ASSESSMENT TASK #
ASSESSMENT TASK NAME
DATE DUE
WEIGHT
LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:
Selfpaced, Open Book and Online Multichoice Quiz
Week 3
5 %
 
Assessment Task 2:
Written Piece and Infographic Poster
Week 7
45 %
LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
Assessment Task 3:
Openbook, Multichoice Online Quiz
Week 14
50 %
 
 
Assessment details
    
Assessment Task 1: Selfpaced, Open Book and Online Multichoice Quiz
Task Description:
Your first assessment task for this unit is a self -paced, open-book and online quiz. The quiz will have a total of five questions, and you will be required to select the correct answer from several possible responses (i.e., multiple choice). The questions will only be based on the Australian Curriculum- Health & Physical Education: Foundation to Year 10. The purpose of this first assessment quiz is for you to orientate yourself with the Australian Curriculum- Health & Physical Education: Foundation to Year 10. It is important to have the above curriculum link open during the quiz, so you can look for the answers to the questions. Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 2.1

Task Length:
 
Due Date:
Week 3 (15/Mar/2024)
Weight:
5 %
 
CRITERION #
CRITERION
MEASURES INTENDED
LEARNING OUTCOME(S)
 
Assessment Task 2: Written Piece and Infographic Poster
Task Description:
Your second assessment task for this unit will contain two parts:
Part 1: Embodied experience
Part 1 should be around 1400 words in length and will be made up of three components. These include:
a) First, you will need to describe the concept of embodiment and draw on relevant scholarly embodiment literature (e.g., from reading list, course material and/or other scholarly sources that you may have found) to support your response (This section should be around 350 words including references).
b) Second, you will need to discuss how the concept of embodiment (i.e., what you have embodied) has the potential to influence your practice as a future classroom/HPE teacher using scholarly literature to support (This section should be around 350 words including references).
c) Third, using a narrative style of writing, you will need to reflect on one (1) embodied experienced from either a HPE, sport or general education context which really affected you (it could be positive or negative). In your storied account, use a deep level of reflection to outline about the incident including information such as: what exactly happened; who (people/stakeholders) was involved; how the experience made you feel at the time; how it affected you physically, emotionally, socially, mentally, and spiritually; pedagogical focus (if any?). This is about drawing on, and reflecting deeply on your past to investigate how it may affect you in the present day as a soon to be teacher/educator. Your narrative should not include references (This section should be approximately 700 words).

Part 2: Infographic poster – Future pedagogical practices as
HPE teacher.
In Part 2, you will need to create an infographic poster. An infographic poster can be described as a visual representation containing information, data, knowledge, personal experience/s etc.

In your Infographic poster, you will need to:
a) Use visual representations with minimal accompanying text to
illustrate what pedagogical practices and/or approaches you will
adopt as a future HPE teacher to cater for your students’ health (physically, emotionally, socially, mentally, and spiritually).
b) Include current HPE literature and course materials (i.e., readings) to support your proposed use of these pedagogical practices/approaches. This means that you are required to reference the pedagogical practices/approaches that you propose to use and include a short sentence or two explaining why you are adopting them.
*It is important to remember that your infographic poster should
present information in a highly visual manner utilising images with minimal text to cue the reader/audience.
Part 1 (written piece), Part 2 (infographic) with an accompanying reference list (literature cited in Parts 1 & 2) should be combined into one (1) document if possible (maximum of two documents is ok) and uploaded in the assignment dropbox on MyLO by the due date.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 1.1, 2.1, 4.4

Task Length:
Part 1: 1400 words Part 2: Equivalent to 600 words words (this does not mean that you are required to include 600 words on your infographic poster. It means that part 2 in whole is equivalent to 600 words of assessment).
Due Date:
Week 7 (15/Apr/2024)
Weight:
45 %
 
CRITERION #
CRITERION
MEASURES INTENDED
LEARNING OUTCOME(S)
1
Future teaching approaches (i.e., pedagogy) in health and physical education have been considered with reference to relevant HPE literature and curriculum (20%)
LO1, LO2
2
Demonstrate critical knowledge of the
concept of embodiment and how it comes to impact upon your teaching practice (20%)
LO2
3
Demonstrates an ability to identify and reflect deeply on a profound embodied experience in a HPE, sport and/or general education context (20%)
LO3
4
Demonstrates how proposed teaching/pedagogical approaches cater for the social; emotional; mental; spiritual and physical health of students (20%)
LO4
5
Demonstrate knowledge of academic writing skills including grammar, spelling, punctuation, and APA referencing (20%)
LO1
 

 
Assessment Task 3: Openbook, Multichoice Online Quiz
Task Description:
An open-book, online quiz made up of 50 multiple choice questions will be held during week 13 of the semester. The quiz will be made up of theoretical and practical concepts covered in lectures, tutorials and drawn from recommended readings.

The quiz will be 60 minutes in total length. Pre-service teachers will be provided with ample preparation, including the specific key readings which quiz questions will be based on, as well as the specific theoretical concepts that will be covered by week 11 of semester.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 4.4

Opens week commencing 27 May 2024, closes 11:59pm 3 June 2024.
Task Length:
60 minutes
Due Date:
Week 14 (03/Jun/2024)
Weight:
50 %
 
CRITERION #
CRITERION
MEASURES INTENDED
LEARNING OUTCOME(S)
 
 
 

How your final result is determined
To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.
 
Submission of assignments
Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.
 
Requests for extensions
If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.
 
A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.
 
The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.
Late penalties
Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.
 
Review of results and appeals
You are entitled to ask for a review of the marking and grading of your assessment task if there is an irregularity in the marking standards or an error in the process for determining the outcome of an assessment. Details on how to request a review of a mark for an assignment are outlined in the Review and Appeal of Academic Decisions Procedure.
 
 
 

Required Resources
Required reading materials
Reading Lists provide direct access to all material on unit reading lists in one place. This includes eReadings and items in Reserve. You can access the Reading List for this unit from the link in MyLO, or by going to the Reading Lists page on the University Library website.
 
Recommended reading materials
1. Australian Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting Authority. (2020). Australian Curriculum- Health & Physical Education: Foundation to Year 10. Canberra, ACT: Author. Available online from: https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/health-and-physical-education/
2. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. (2009). Belonging, Being & Becoming - The early years learning framework for Australia. Available online from: https://www.acecqa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2018-02/belonging_being_and_becoming_the_early_years_learning_framework_for_australia.pdf
 
Other required resources