塔斯马尼亚大学

The Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education) is a pre-service teaching degree that will give you the skills and knowledge to teach health and physical education from foundation through to year 12. This course is accredited through the Tasmanian Teachers Registration Board, and is recognised in all states and territories, so once you graduate you’ll be qualified to teach anywhere in Australia.

The course has been designed to develop teachers who can inspire people to be healthy for life, with a primary focus on the dimensions of health and wellbeing: physical, mental, emotional, social, environmental and spiritual.

You will be required to undertake a number of Professional Experience placements totalling 80 days. This will give you the opportunity to apply the theoretical and practical skills that you have learnt in a safe and supportive environment.

The Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education) is available on-campus in Launceston.

Course objectives

The program is informed by core theoretical knowledge, evidence-based practice and underpinned by a strong theory-practice nexus enacted in collaboration with appropriate employing authorities. At the core of the program is the pre-service teacher who is educated to:

Have ownership of a reasoned and critical perspective
Have capacity to operate inclusively in highly diverse contexts
Have curricular and pedagogical competence
Be appropriately collaborative and context-honouring in a community of learners
Have capacity to be resilient learners who make evidence-based lifelong contributions to their field

The course content and practical experience provides theoretical and practical opportunities to practice what is learned in a safe and supportive environment.

Learning Outcomes

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Exhibit depth and breadth of knowledge by:

Knowing students and how they learn across a variety of contexts;
Demonstrating pedagogical content knowledge across the range of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary curriculum areas;
A broad and coherent body of knowledge that is the basis for professional practice as health and physical educators in junior and senior secondary school settings;
Providing integrated learning experiences that underpin health and wellness;
By acquiring knowledge as the basis for further learning and professional engagement in on-going professional development.

2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of health and physical education by:

Planning for, implementing, and assessing teaching and learning across a variety of contexts;
Analysing teaching and learning approaches that are underpinned by evidence and inquiry;
Exhibiting a critically informed sense of how health and wellbeing interacts with society in a two way dialectical relationship;
Having the meta cognitive skills to critically, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge and skills that contribute to quality health and physical education pedagogy.

3. Exhibit depth and breadth of educational knowledge and skills by:

Creating and maintaining safe, supportive, sustainable, and inclusive health and wellbeing learning environments;
Articulating the transformative purpose and potential of education in society;
Demonstrating graduate level proficiency in teaching settings – notably in literacy and numeracy - and attaining the graduate professional standards relevant to education.

4. Communicate effectively by:

Demonstrating literacy across a broad range of communication modes and technologies in educational contexts;
Demonstrating information literacy capabilities to identify, critically engage with, and communicate ideas with coherence and clarity to range of professional stakeholders.