Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Practical
Module Offerings
4501SPOSCI-JAN-PAR
Aims
This module will enable students to consider and appreciate how physical education can provide a positive learning environment for the development of a wide range of skills and attributes. These include movement, sport-specific skills, leadership, and teamwork. This module will allow for reflection on how pedagogy can impact on the physical, affective, cognitive, and social development of individuals.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Examine how people learn and identify the factors that influence the learning process.
2.
Apply pedagogical theories to varied Physical Education learning environments
3.
Identify safe practice conventions to practical activities
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Theories of learning e.g., behaviourist, cognitivist, constructivist perspectives. Pedagogical approaches e.g., Mosston's Spectrum.
Planning delivery and evaluation of safe practical activities e.g., games, aesthetic activities, and individual activities.
Additional Information:This module is delivered in semester 2. This module provides students an opportunity to develop their theoretical knowledge and applied skills in physical education. The module will include guided learning through fundamental pedagogical principles relevant to PE. Students will also develop their curriculum specific knowledge and practical skills in lesson planning, delivery, feedback and assessment. This module will enable individuals to consider and appreciate how physical education can provide a positive learning environment for the development of a wide range of skills and attributes. These include movement, sport specific skills, leadership and teamwork. This module will allow for reflection on how pedagogy can impact on the physical, affective, cognitive, and social development of individuals. This module will primarily focus on traditional activities associated with physical education such as games, aesthetic activities and individual activities. Students will develop their applied skills through small-group tutorials, supplemented by their work-place based learning. Students’ knowledge and skills will be assessed through completion of individual assignments. Students are presented with opportunities to gain peer and lecturer formative feedback on their assessment within small group seminar sessions and individual tutor meetings that take place throughout the semester.