Task Description:

You have been asked by your school principal to be the school’s new health promotion co-ordinator, and your first task in this role is to create a presentation that:
• Identifies a health issue relevant to the school community, and justify the relevance of this issue
• Develops and justifies a plan for addressing this issue using the Health Promoting Schools approach. Your plan must include all aspects of the HPS approach:
o Curriculum, teaching and learning
o Ethos and environment
o Partnerships and services (including parents/carers and the community)
You need to create a 10-minute pre-recorded presentation (video) that responds to the principal’s request.
To complete this task, you should focus on a school context that you are familiar with (for example, a school that you attended as a student or visited on a professional experience placement/classroom observation).
More details of this assessment task and examples will be provided in Week 1 of the semester.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 2.1, 3.7

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 6

Weight:

40 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

Task Description:

“The most valuable resource that all teachers have is each other. Without collaboration our growth is limited to our own perspectives” - Robert John Meehan

For this task you need to:
1. Identify an aspect (or aspects) of your teaching practice that you would like to improve through professional learning. Explain why (including a rationale for continued professional learning).
2. Identify relevant and appropriate sources of professional learning to suit your needs (as described in point 1 above). Explain how the professional learning (that you have identified) is relevant and appropriate.
3. Outline how you might evaluate the impact of the professional learning that you have chosen to undertake (including the implications of this for improved student learning)

Use examples and links to relevant literature where appropriate.

More details of this assessment task and examples will be provided in Week 1 of the semester.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 6.2, 6.4

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 11

Weight:

20 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

Task Description:

Changing health behaviour has become a priority for most Australians. Most people have health behaviours that they would like change. Some healthy behaviours such as eating better, having good quality sleep, meditating, exercising are ones that people want to adopt into their life. Others such as smoking, or drinking too much, people want to do less of in their life.

Changing health behaviours is not always as easy or straightforward as it may appear, and that is why health professionals should use evidence-based interventions that are based on theoretical principals of health behaviour change.

For this project you will select one (1) health behaviour that you may have been thinking about changing, or have tried to change previously without success, and document it in a journal, blog, diary or essay format.

Over the duration of 10 weeks, you will work through guided healthy change modules, where you will be given an opportunity to work on, change, explain and reflect on the factors that may help or hinder actually making this healthy change by completing a series of measures and tools often used in health behaviour change research.

Review the value and limitations of current health behaviour change theories that may be applied to understanding a behavioural change and the role they may play within your behaviour change journey with justification.

More details of this assessment task and examples will be provided in Week 1 of the semester.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 2.1, 3.1

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 12

Weight:

40 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION