Course overview
This course introduces students to a developmental model of how young people grow and mature together and the inextricable relationship this has on the emergence of movement capabilities. The course focuses on the early childhood to adolescent stages of human growth and motor development and encourages a holistic view of development. The knowledge and skills acquired throughout the course will enhance capabilities to teach the whole child using movement as a valuable medium. A focus on planning and teaching social dance, fundamental athletics skills and general gymnastics in developmentally appropriate ways, to children in the Primary years of school will be explicitly modelled with the opportunity for students to enhance their own abilities.
- Foundations of Human Development
- Growth and Motor Development
- Teaching Implications of MD
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the characteristics and principles of human growth, development and motor behaviour from birth to adolescence in relation to the application into teaching practice
- Understand and describe the complex process of change and critical periods in human development and motor behaviour that emerges from the interaction of heredity, task and the environment (Hourglass model)
- Use key terms associated with the study of human growth and development appropriately to contribute to small group discussion and learning activities
- Explain how the periods of life are inextricably linked with the phases of motor development through the Hourglass Model of motor development
- Apply knowledge and understanding of human growth and motor development from birth to adolescence to plan developmentally appropriate and engaging learning sequences for primary-aged students
- Demonstrate teaching skills in the developmentally appropriate activities for the early and primary years of schooling
Availability
Class details
Magill
Group 1
Class number 25395
Section TU01
Size 54
Available 19
Mawson Lakes
Group 1
Class number 25396
Section TU01
Size 54
Available 15
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