Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education)

The Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education) requires the completion of 400 credit points including:

• 362.5 credit points of core units;
• a 37.5 credit point teaching proficiency;
• 80 days of Professional Placement

Your teaching proficiency consists of 37.5 credit points completed across the third and fourth years of your degree. The proficiencies available are:

• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Mathematics
• Science

Core units

Year 1 (Complete all 100 credit points of Core Year 1 units)

• Fundamentals of Bioscience
• Foundations of Teaching
• Growth and Motor Development Across the Lifespan
• Academic Literacies
• Foundations of Literacy
• Health & Physical Activity
• Health Pedagogy 1
• Applied HPE Pedagogy 1

Year 2 (Complete all 100 credit points of Core units and 20 days of Professional Experience)

• Exercise Physiology
• Scientific Principles of Strength & Conditioning
• Planning for Positive Behaviour
• Assessment for Learning
• Professional Experience 1 Primary Health and Physical Education
• HPE Pedagogy
• Motor Learning
• Applied HPE Pedagogy 2
• Sports Coaching

Year 3 (Complete all 87.5 credit points of core units and the first 12.5 credit points of your Teaching Proficiency.You will also complete 30 days of professional experience)

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culturally Inclusive Curriculum and Pedagogy
• Education, Ethics and Professional Practice
• Mathematics Pedagogical Content Knowledge Years 6 to 10
• Professional Experience 2 Secondary Health and Physical
• Inclusivity & Physical Activity
• Applied HPE Pedagogy 3
• The Psychology of Sport & Physical Activity
• Health Pedagogy 2

Year 4 (Complete 75 credit points of core units and 25 credit points from your Teaching Proficiency. You will also complete 30 days of Professional Experience)

• Equity, Diversity and Schooling
• Preparing for the Profession
• Professional Experience 3 Health and Physical Education Capstone
• Organisation in Community Sport and Recreation
• Social and Emotional Learning
• Advanced HPE Pedagogy
• Health Promotion and Behaviour Change: Perspectives and Practice

LANTITE

All students must complete the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) in order to graduate the course.

• Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students
• Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students