ED5234 - Curriculum Essentials 4: Health and Physical Education, the Arts and Technology

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Education

Available only to students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma of Education Years 1-9 [33506, 33506T]

This subject is an introduction to teaching Health and Physical Education (HPE), the Arts and Technology key learning areas in Years 1 to 9. The Arts and HPE provide opportunities for embodied, active and collaborative learning. Together they provide a holistic view of well being which includes the physical, social, emotional, mental, spiritual and aesthetic. Students will have the opportunity to engage in and reflect upon learning experiences with the intention of developing knowledge, skills and attitudes required to teach and facilitate learning in these key learning areas. Where relevant, integration of HPE, the Arts and Technology will be promoted.

Learning Outcomes

• ability to employ pedagogies to promote a critical and active engagement with arts elements, techniques and processes, issues of health and physical activity, and use of materials and resources in design and technology;
• ability to develop and critique a range of ways of assessing, interpreting and reporting on student learning in the Arts, HPE and Technology;
• identify ways in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) might be used to inquire, create, present and communicate within the Arts, HPE and Technology contexts;
• identify opportunities to consider Indigenous contributions (visual and performative) and diverse perspectives and accommodate the needs and interests of all students within the Arts, HPE and Technology contexts;
• recognise, interpret and critique the dynamic and complex nature of health and physical education, the significance of artistic expression and the impact of technologies in daily life.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

ED5223 and ED5224

Availabilities
Cairns, Limited, Study Period 8
Census Date 18-Aug-2011
Face to face teaching 22-Aug-2011 to 30-Sep-2011 (Limited mode)
Coordinator:	Dr Maree Dinan-Thompson
Lecturers:	Dr Maree Dinan-Thompson, Dr Kathryn Meldrum.
Contact hours:	39 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	in-class assessment (hpe) (25%); hpe assessment task (25%); in-class tasks (arts/technology) (25%); assignment - arts/technology event plus teaching plan (25%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.