Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-INT-2022-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2E-INT-2018-2021

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Demonstrate personal aquatic and associated life-saving competencies.

2.

Display an understanding of sport science principles at a level required to create, teach and evaluate aquatic lessons.

3.

Adapt lesson plans and/or aquatic activities using a variety of differentiated teaching strategies and resources that cater for student diversity (e.g. students from CALD or ATSI backgrounds or student with physical disabilities).

4.

Engage professionally with colleagues, teachers, parents/carers and the community to critically evaluate an existing secondary school aquatic program.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Students will display an applied understanding of the biomechanical, physiological, psychological and motor learning and coaching principles associated with school students’ development of aquatic competencies and knowledge. Students will critically engage with the teacher’s roles in promoting a safe and productive learning environment. In particular students will explore surrounding physical education policy and practice in both administrative and legislative teacher requirements that support student learning, growth, safety and wellbeing. The unit also provides an opportunity for students to critique current school teaching through authentic focussed-observation and live-document interrogation.