HMES8491 Health Education [PG]

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Credit: 6 points Availability: Semester 1 (See Timetable) Old unit code: 310.491

Outcomes: Students determine and justify a health education rationale, and plan for and critically evaluate teaching pedagogy and content which is underpinned by the Western Australian Curriculum framework. They identify and apply teaching strategies/methods that serve to increase teaching/learning effectiveness in health education.

Content: This unit provides an in-depth study of values and attitudes that promote health. It uses the medium of health to explore the techniques and presentation skills necessary for the teaching of health.

Assessment: This comprises the presentation and self-evaluation of micro-teaching sequential development of health education lesson plans and the creation and presentation of a role-play activity.

Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit.

Unit Co-ordinator(s): Dr Peter Whipp

Location: UWA (Crawley)

Mode: on-campus

Unit Rules:

Prerequisites: enrolment in the Graduate Diploma in Education

Contact hours—lectures: 3 hrs per week; workshops: health extension evening and a role-play night

Assistance with study skills, including English language skills, is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students (see http://www.studysmarter.uwa.edu.au/). Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423.

Books and other material wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.