Health, Safety and Physical Education in Early Childhood
PostgraduateCUR-MTEC5042019
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Strengthen your understanding of the nutritional and physical support children need during early development. Get a grip on the fundamentals of upper and lower body motor skills. Extend your studies to focus on child protection policies.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Health, Safety and Physical Education in Early Childhood
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- explain how to support and promote children’s nutrition, health and well-being
- apply knowledge about health, safety and physical development to the holistic development of children
- observe and assess motor skills to meet specific learning needs of children.
- Introduction to health, well-being and physical development
- Exploring Physical Development Across the Lifespan I
- Exploring Physical Development Across the Lifespan II
- Understanding the Assessment of Motor Development I
- Understanding the Assessment of Motor Development II
- Data Collection, reporting and making sense of the data
- Understanding Diversity in physical and motor Development I
- Understanding Diversity in physical and motor Development II
- Child Protection & Mandatory Child Health Protection Policies
- Creating quality Environments
- Reflection
This subject will enable pre-service teachers to develop a sound understanding of motor skills development and links to nutrition, health and well-being of children in the early years. Pre-service teachers will investigate fundamental motors skills for both the upper and lower body. A focus of this subject is the assessment and analysis of motor skills in young children.
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- Essay (50%)
- Report (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
- Other requirements -
Access to Microsoft Office or a unit approved alternative, Access to video creation and editing software
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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