A planning process to implement
the curriculum statement based on student's needs
Page index
Analysing current health and physical education
programmes
Identifying the learning needs of students
Planning programmes and units of work
Assessment of student acheivement
Long term planning
Critiquing units of work
Analysing current health and physical education programmes
The following activity guides teachers through an analysis of their
current health and physical education programme using a tracking sheet.
This activity acknowledges that teachers and students will already
be covering aspects of this curriculum, though approaches to teaching
and learning may need to be modified.
For a sample tracking sheet click on the appropriate level below:
level 1 / level
2 / level 3 /
level 4 / level
5 / level 6 /
level 7 / level
8. These are Microsoft Word Files.
For instructions on how to use a tracking sheet to analyse your
programme, Click
here.
Identifying the learning needs of students
Read the
needs of learners from the curriculum statement and reflect
on how you identify the needs of your student. Identify
any other strategies and considerations you could bear in mind.
Note: the legislative
requirements for consultation from the curriculum.
Planning to meet the needs of students
Look at page 9 of any of the Curriculum
in Action booklets and identify which of the learning outcomes
listed would be priorities for your students. You may want to select
all the learning outcomes. However, you will need to decide on a
clear focus for unit/s of learning so that each includes a manageable
number of selected outcomes.
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Planning programmes and units of work
Read the section planning
and assessment from the curriculum statement
Developing units of Learning
Click here for
guidelines to plan units of learning and a range of sample planning
template.
Unit Titles
It has become increasingly evident that a clever title for a unit
can guide teachers more easily to identifying focus and supporting
AOs. For example, Confidence in the Water, Being a Great
Friend or Smart Snacks are more meaningful titles than
Aquatics Friends or Nutrition. Click
here to see some of the titles teachers have used.
Writing learning outcomes from achievement objectives
"Learning outcomes signal the learning that is expected to occur
as a result of a particular learning activity, page eight Curriculum
in Action."
Learning outcomes are developed from achievement objectives which
are the "big picture". They specify how the learning in
a particular context relates to the objective. Clear learning outcomes
facilitate assessment.
An example from Bubbles to Buoyancy is:
Achievement objective 1A3
Students will describe and demonstrate simple health care and safety
procedures.
Learning outcome
Students will describe and demonstrate simple practices that contribute
to water hygiene.
Possible learning activity
Through class discussion, students can identify and chart the rules
for safe and hygienic practices when at the pool. Students are encouraged
to use these before each swimming session.
Assessment opportunity
Discuss and develop a class or partner based checklist with rules
for hygienic pool practices. Teacher observes students using safe
and hygenic practices at the pool.
An example we have developed for use in our teacher
workshops is:
Achievement objective 2C3
Students will express their ideas, needs and feelings confidently,
and listen sensitively to other people and affirm them.
Learning outcome
Throughout this workshop teachers will work cooperatively, expressing
their ideas, needs and feelings confidently, and listening to others.
Possible learning activity
Teachers discuss and develop guidelines for working cooperatively
together. Teachers practice these guidelines when engaged in cooperative
activities.
Assessment opportunity
Teachers can self assess using a cooperative
learning checklist.
Some learning outcomes will help you to cover more than one achievement
objective and there will be some achievement objectives that will
require more than one learning outcome for coverage. For each learning
outcome you will need to develop activities.
An example of requiring more than one learning
outcome is in Curriculum in Action: Choice Food. Refer
to page 9.
Achievement objective 3A1
Students will identify factors that affect personal, physical ,
social, and emotional growth and develop skills to manage changes.
Learning outcomes
Students will identify their nutritional needs for physical, social,
and mental and emotional growth, and factors that affect their food
choices.
Students will develop an action plan to meet their nutritional needs.
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Assessment of student achievement
For identification of assessment opportunities refer to planning
and assessment from the curriculum. "When planning for
assessment, teachers should ensure that the procedures they use enable
them to assess and report on both individual student progress and
overall student achievement."
Schools have to decide how much formal assessment they will carry
out to enable them to make valid professional judgements about student
progress. Teachers do not have to assess against every achievement
objective they use within a unit.
Assessment in health education, home economics, and physical education needs to
- be balanced
- be guided by the achievement objectives
- be part of the teaching and learning activities
- relate to student needs and learning styles
- use a range of strategies and situations
- provide specific information about student progress
- be used formatively throughout health, home economics and physical
education activities to support and enhance student learning
Long Term Planning
Once you have completed an analysis of your programme and taught
a unit then you can update your long term plan. Click
here for a sample long term plan.
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Critiquing Units of Work
Click here for
instructions on how to critique an existing unit of learning.
Programmes of learning are central to promoting well-being. Teachers
are encouraged to give each other feedback on new or modified units
of learning. When they complete such an activity, teachers became
more aware of the verb in the achievement objective, and
its inclusion in the learning outcome and in the assessment task.
Try this unit critique activity:
Click here (Word
file) to print a unit plan developed by a teacher using the Curriculum
in Action resource, Choice Food. All learning activities
are based on the needs of her students. For a copy of a blank critique
sheet, click here
(Word file).
Once you have critiqued this unit click
here (Word file) to compare notes with another teacher who also
critiqued this unit.
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