Healthy, Active Individuals and Communities

This unit provides you with content knowledge for teaching Health, Physical Education, Personal and Social Learning at the early and middle years of childhood and facilitates the development of health literacy skills and knowledge required to make educational settings and communities, healthy, safe and active places. A series of individual, small group and whole group activities will assist students to build confidence in developing positive learning environments and engaging learning activities. You will develop skills and knowledge to engage in critical inquiry and determine how best to support and facilitate children’s learning in the area of Health, enhance your own and others’ health and activity practices, and recognise and respect the social values and identities of individuals from diverse social and cultural contexts.