Personal Development & HPE
PostgraduateTAS-EMT6952025
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025,
- 21 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,440
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Personal Development & HPE
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Explain key health and well-being debates and sources from a critical perspective.
- Analyse and discuss through specific resources and teaching strategies contemporary aspects of health and well-being.
- Critically reflect on the assumptions that underpin personal and professional practice as they relate to health, safety and well-being.
- Analyse and evaluate current evidence-based sources to illustrate personal and social determinants of health and well-being.
- PDHPE: Physical Health and Wellbeing
- Using Resources to Assist in the Teaching of PDHPE
- How to Teach Wellbeing
- Mental Health: The Environment
- Drug Education
- Contemporary Issues: Australian Indigenous Health
- Understanding Movement: Teaching Physical Education
- Understanding Trauma
- Safety: Protecting the Safety and Wellbeing of Children and Young People
- Communicable and Chronic Diseases
- Nutrition and Exercise
- Self-reflection for Educators
The subject aims to promote awareness of the importance of Health and Physical Education (HPE) in the curriculum from a generalist teacher's perspective, and provide confidence in teaching its concepts at a primary school level. It seeks to prepare primary school pre-service teachers to teach generalist level physical education and other physical activities to primary school children. It also aims to prepare primary school pre-service teachers to teach health education and health promotion to children, parents, staff and the wider school community whilst giving pre-service teachers knowledge of and developing their capacity to discuss and analyse contemporary aspects of health and wellbeing; as well as an ability to work with others who may have health and well-being issues. Evidence-based sources will be used to develop knowledge of the physical, social, emotional, spiritual and interpersonal dimensions and will be applied to a range of topics covered in the health and physical education curriculum, for example: drugs, resilience, nutrition and safety issues. The interpersonal skills of communication and conflict resolution will also be developed. National, state and local perspectives relating to the focus, structure and content of HPE will also be critically examined.
Skills that are emphasised in this subject are those that have been identified by the Teachers Registration Board (TRB), the ACARA HPE curriculum, as well as national teaching bodies, as important by the time you graduate with your teaching degree. These include demonstrating aspects of professional knowledge, professional relationships and professional practice.
- Health and wellbeing resource analysis (45%)
- Health Learning Portfolio (50%)
- Health and Wellbeing Resource Identification (5%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-EDC-MAS-2025 - Master of Teaching (Primary)
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: weekly (online) lectures or equivalent (1 hour) and weekly online tutorials or participation in discussion boards (2 hours)
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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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateTAS-EDC-MAS