EDU2461 Teaching and Learning in Physical Education (FOEDU)

Semester 1 (ONC)Toowoomba (ONC)Fraser Cst (ONC)Springfld

Units 1.0 (Teacher Education) Band 5

State law in Queensland (Australia) requires that all adults working/undertaking professional experience/researching with children under the age of 18, in the state of Queensland are required to possess a current suitability card (Blue Card). (See "Other Requirements" for further information.) Also see: http://www.childcomm.qld.gov.au/employment/bluecard/informationSheets.html.

Synopsis

This course seeks to develop a more detailed understanding of how certain physical activities occurs in school settings. It seeks to build a knowledge of the practical application of certain physical activities through which the core learning outcomes expressed in the Queensland 1-10 Health and Physical Education syllabus may be demonstrated. Students will be encouraged to challenge the traditional practical applications of aquatics, outdoor education, sport and health-based physical activity, and in the process have a basic introduction to models of skill acquisition drawing principally from information processing and dynamical systems to perceptual motor development. Students will use the medium of movement to explore the processes of skilled performance and skill learning. Students will investigate and analyse the links between the processes of skill acquisition as they are understood under different theoretical models and models of teaching physical activity from direct to indirect methods. This course will include a physical activity component.