TEACHING HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION- Physical Education Unit Assessment

THE TASK

Thinking of the ‘team, game, season and practice’ unit structure, respond to the following questions incorporating reference to both your experiences from the PE workshop sessions (class discussions) Refer to the classroom observations in this document, The HPE Games and Dance booklet and your academic reading:

1. How does this unit design and implementation address curriculum (content descriptors) in HPE?

2. How does this unit structure address a pedagogical issue in HPE (select one)?

3. How is physical education more than just physical activity or sports?

Marking schema

1. How does this unit design and implementation address the curriculum in HPE? Identifies and evaluates specific connections between this unit design and the curriculum content descriptors in HPE (30% weighting)

2. How does this unit design address a pedagogical issue in HPE (select one)? Identifies one specific pedagogical issue in HPE and explains how this unit design may be used to address this issue (40% weighting)

3. How is physical education more than just physical activity or sports? Identifies and explains differences between physical education, physical activity and sports (not sport education) (15% weighting)

4. Incorporate reference to both experience and theory. Synthesizes experiences in workshop sessions with students and at least six academic references in a clear and coherent writing style referenced using APA (15% weighting)

Criteria

Curriculum in PE

How does this unit design address curriculum in HPE? Identifies and evaluates specific connections between this unit design and curriculum in HPE (30% weighting)

Pedagogical issues in PE

How does this unit design address pedagogical issues in HPE? Identifies one specific pedagogical issue in HPE and explains how this unit design may be used to address this issue (40% weighting)

Differences between PA,PE and Sport

How is physical education more than just physical activity or sports? Identifies and explains differences between physical education, physical activity and sports (not sport education) (15% weighting)

Connecting experience and theory

Incorporate reference to both experience and theory. Synthesizes experiences in workshop sessions with students and at least six academic references in a clear and coherent writing style referenced using APA (15% weighting)