Course Title: Health and Physical Education Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Health and Physical Education Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
TCHE2619	Bundoora Campus	Undergraduate	360H Education	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 1 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 1 2024

Course Coordinator: Sarah Cositgan

Course Coordinator Phone: 03 9925

Course Coordinator Email: sarah.costigan@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Bundoora Level 3 Building 220

Course Coordinator Availability: By Appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses 

Successful completion of TCHE2625 Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education and TCHE2658 Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education  

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course. 

For your information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage. 

Course Description

In this course, you will be introduced to curriculum, assessment and reporting practices, and policies in schools and education systems. You will focus on curriculum, assessment and reporting for Victorian schools within the context of Health and Physical Education, and cross curriculum literacy and numeracy requirements.

You will explore theories and professional debates in curriculum, assessment and reporting relevant to your teaching career. You will respond to the complexities and practicalities met in constructing and implementing curriculum, creating and applying appropriate assessment, and providing clear reporting to learners and other stakeholders. This course enhances your professional skills as a competent, knowledgeable and active curriculum and assessment professional.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes 

This course contributes to the following program learning outcomes:  

• Develop and apply broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge through one or more of the following practices: planning using data; teaching and learning; assessing; feedback and professional judgement; and appraising impact of teaching across a range of disciplines. 
• Enhance student learning and wellbeing by adopting practices that support sustainable futures and principles of inclusion, including for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 
• Support students to develop the skills needed to become collaborative, problem-solving, creative learners with agency, and innovative and engaged members of society. 

 

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

	AITSL Standards
1. Critically analyse, synthesise and reflect on the role and purpose of assessment strategies including informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess student learning	5.1
2. Collect, interpret, analyse and apply assessment data to plan, structure and sequence a lesson series that incorporate literacy and numeracy teaching strategies.	1.5, 2.3, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 5.4, 5.5
3. Develop and apply theoretical and practical knowledge and skills related to assessment moderation and making consistent and comparable judgements, and discuss of a range of strategies for reporting to students and parents/carers and their involvement in the child’s educative process.	3.7, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
4. Organise content into effective learning and teaching sequence that includes challenging and differentiated learning goals in Health and Physical Education	2.2
5. Utilise communication and collaboration skills in engaging with key stakeholders in professional education contexts.	3.5, 7.4

Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as workshops, tutorials, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Teaching and learning may be face to face, online, or a combination of both. 

Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. 

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal. 

Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes (CLO) and on your development against the program learning outcomes. The assessment is also mapped against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST).  

Assessment Tasks 

	Title	Weighting	CLOs	APSTs
AT 1	Report (e.g., Data analysis, interpretation)	30%	1, 2, 3	1.5, 2.3, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.7, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
AT 2	Resource curation (e.g., Preparing reporting structure, report for students & parents/carers, etc.)	30%	3, 4, 5	2.2, 3.5, 3.7, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 7.4
AT 3	Critical review (e.g., Create, implement and reflect on a sequence of lessons using data to inform your planning)	40%	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	1.5, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.5, 3.7, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 7.4

 

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks. 

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more. 

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.