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EDMT5692: Health Curriculum 1
2024 unit information
This unit is the first of two that focuses on the Health curriculum to be delivered by secondary teachers of Personal Development, Health and Physical Education in the NSW educational system teaching. It provides subject specific content knowledge regarding the development of health priorities for Australia and how social determinants of health help to construct very particular types of understandings about health and individuals. The unit provides instruction on a number of pedagogical approaches to teaching health including: strength based approaches, health literacy, whole school approach and how to teach sensitive issues. Students will also focus on the curriculum areas of safely and child protection. The unit provides students with skills in designing lesson plans, program scopes and assessment strategies for Personal Development, Health and Physical Education at secondary schools.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Education
| Code | EDMT5692 |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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EDMT5694 |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate your developing understanding of the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) curriculum through engagement in a number of practically-based tutorial activities
- LO2. Critically reflect on the ways in which social determinants of health for adolescents are constructed in the media
- LO3. Evaluate and apply your understanding of the aims, outcomes and PDHPE content of the NSW PDHPE syllabus for Years 7 -10 in the development of a lesson plan and critique of resources
- LO4. Evaluate the teaching/learning and assessment strategies that are applicable to your own classroom teaching e.g. strength based approaches; health literacy; whole school approach; first do no harm and teaching sensitive issues in the development of a lesson plan and critique of resources.
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