43J Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education)

Overview 2023

Entry Requirements: See entry requirements

Duration: Minimum 4 Years, up to a maximum of 9 Years

Duration

Duration refers to the minimum and maximum amounts of time in which this course can be completed. It will be affected by whether you choose to study full or part time, noting that some programs are only available part time.

Location

Launceston: Semester 1, Semester 2

Entry Requirements: See entry requirements

Duration: Minimum 4 Years, up to a maximum of 9 Years

Duration

Duration refers to the minimum and maximum amounts of time in which this course can be completed. It will be affected by whether you choose to study full or part time, noting that some programs are only available part time.
Entry requirements

Location

Launceston: Semester 1, Semester 2

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Laura Stuart - Education Student

The Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education) is a pre-service teaching degree that will give you the skills and knowledge to teach health and physical education from foundation through to year 12. This course is accredited through the Tasmanian Teachers Registration Board, and is recognised in all states and territories, so once you graduate you’ll be qualified to teach anywhere in Australia.

The course has been designed to develop teachers who can inspire people to be healthy for life, with a primary focus on the dimensions of health and wellbeing: physical, mental, emotional, social, environmental and spiritual.

Responding to feedback from recent graduates, teachers and school leaders, we also offer several maths units so that graduates will be better prepared if they are asked to take maths classes by future employing schools

You will be required to undertake a number of Professional Experience placements totalling 80 days. This will give you the opportunity to apply the theoretical and practical skills that you have learnt in a safe and supportive environment.

The Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education) is available on-campus in Launceston.

Course objectives

The program is informed by core theoretical knowledge, evidence-based practice and underpinned by a strong theory-practice nexus enacted in collaboration with appropriate employing authorities. At the core of the program is the pre-service teacher who is educated to:

Have ownership of a reasoned and critical perspective
Have capacity to operate inclusively in highly diverse contexts
Have curricular and pedagogical competence
Be appropriately collaborative and context-honouring in a community of learners
Have capacity to be resilient learners who make evidence-based lifelong contributions to their field

The course content and practical experience provides theoretical and practical opportunities to practice what is learned in a safe and supportive environment.

Learning Outcomes

1 Exhibit depth and breadth of knowledge by: Knowing students and how they learn across a variety of contexts; Demonstrating pedagogical content knowledge across the range of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary curriculum areas; A broad and coherent body of knowledge that is the basis for professional practice as health and physical educators in junior and senior secondary school settings; Providing integrated learning experiences that underpin health and wellness; By acquiring knowledge as the basis for further learning and professional engagement in on-going professional development.

2 Demonstrate a critical understanding of health and physical education by: Planning for, implementing, and assessing teaching and learning across a variety of contexts; Analysing teaching and learning approaches that are underpinned by evidence and inquiry; Exhibiting a critically informed sense of how health and wellbeing interacts with society in a two way dialectical relationship; Having the meta cognitive skills to critically, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge and skills that contribute to quality health and physical education pedagogy.

3 Exhibit depth and breadth of educational knowledge and skills by: Creating and maintaining safe, supportive, sustainable, and inclusive health and wellbeing learning environments; Articulating the transformative purpose and potential of education in society; Demonstrating graduate level proficiency in teaching settings – notably in literacy and numeracy - and attaining the graduate professional standards relevant to education.

4 Communicate effectively by: Demonstrating literacy across a broad range of communication modes and technologies in educational contexts; Demonstrating information literacy capabilities to identify, critically engage with, and communicate ideas with coherence and clarity to range of professional stakeholders.

5 Exhibit the ethical, active and responsible professional practice which is central to education as a discipline by: Engaging professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community. Demonstrating the professional attitudes and values to ensure the educational needs of all children are met; Understand and incorporate within their pedagogy a commitment to inclusivity, cultural awareness, sustainability, and diversity, and social justice to provide the opportunity for student engagement and achievement; Creating and implementing teaching and learning experiences which reflect a global perspective; Having knowledge across the range of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary curriculum areas and professional studies units.

Practical experience

Professional Experience Placements

An integral part of your learning in the Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education) are classroom placements - putting into active practice the theory and knowledge you have been studying throughout your degree.

Placements are designed to enable our students to become familiar with a variety of learners and diverse learning environments. Your placements will involve active observation, participation and engagement in teaching and learning activities. For Health and Physical Education placements, students participate in primary, secondary and aquatic settings.

During your placements you will be supervised and managed by a tertiary qualified educator (your Colleague Teacher), and be assessed against Focus Areas within the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

Overseas Exchange

The Faculty of Education has a number of exchange partnerships with Universities whose curriculum and teaching our closely aligned with our own. Find out more about the University's Exchange Programs at Student Mobility.

Become a Student Ambassador

Improve your communication, teamwork and leadership skills, meet new people, inspire and help others, and developing lasting friendships and networks as a student ambassador. Our ambassadors proudly represent the University throughout Tasmania in schools, at University and community events, and support a range of recruitment and engagement activities. Through the Student Ambassador Program you will have many opportunities for training and professional development, experience in real-world community engagement and outreach, networking, and public speaking, plus end up with a key point of distinction on your CV.

Work placement

As a student you will participate in a minimum of 80 days (16 weeks) of full-time Professional Experience. Placements are usually scheduled as continuous ‘blocks’ of time ranging from 20 to 30 days, and occur in a variety of educational settings.

20 day placement in second year.
30 day placement in third year.
30 day placement in fourth year.

Career outcomes

"I wanted to do something a little bit more fulfilling, and teaching made a lot of sense. My mother has been in education for a long time, my wife is a teacher, her mother is a teacher, my grandfather was a teacher, so it seems to be the way!”

Jamie Pullen, Health and Physical Education student

Find out more

Graduates of Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education) are deemed to be qualified to teach in public and private sector schools in all states and territories of Australia by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership.

Our graduates work with students from Foundation to Grade 12, throughout Australia and overseas.

Postgraduate study

If you successfully complete this course, you may be also be eligible to apply for a range of other postgraduate courses including Graduate Certificates and Graduate Diplomas and Masters by coursework and research.

Professional Accreditation

The Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education) is an externally accredited degree.

This course is accredited by Teacher Registration Board Tasmanian (TRB).

Graduates may meet the requirements for registration with the TRB . There may be additional requirements for registration beyond the completion of the course.

For further registration requirements, please visit the TRB website.

If you have any queries about the accreditation process, please contact us for further information.

Course structure

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

If you are starting in 2023 you can find your course planner here. Your course planner gives you a visual representation of your course and will help you plan which units to enrol in and when.

For course planners from previous years, refer to the handbook entry for that year.

Year 1

You must complete all 100 credit points of core units.

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Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Launceston	Semester 1
Launceston	Semester 2
Cradle Coast	Semester 1
Online	Semester 1
Online	Semester 2

Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education) (43J)

Overview 2023

Entry Requirements

Duration

Duration

Location

Entry Requirements

Duration

Duration

Location

Professional Experience Placements

Overseas Exchange

Become a Student Ambassador

Career outcomes

Postgraduate study

Course structure

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

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

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

Introduction to Humanities and Social Sciences Education

Primary Mathematics Pedagogy

Introduction to Primary Science Education

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

Myths and Mysteries of Australian History

Advanced Humanities and Social Sciences Education

Extending Understanding of Primary Mathematics

Inclusive Mathematics

STEM Education for Sustainable Development (STEM4ESD)

Planning and Assessing in Primary Science

Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students

Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students

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