BPHY120
Adopting a Learner-centred Approach to Physical Education

MQF Level: 6

ECTS Value: 4 ECTS

Self Study Hours: 48

Contact Hours: 20

Assessment Hours: 32

Mode of Delivery:
Face to Face

 

Overall Objectives and Outcomes

Through this module, the course participant will become fluent with a host of teaching skills that need to be applied in Physical Education to give more colour to the content. It will help the course participant to embrace and adapt a more learner-centred approach to Physical Education. Throughout, this module, the course participant will consider the PE curriculum and determine how this can be taught in an effective and cohesive manner to all students so that learning is facilitated.

By the end of this module, the learner will be able to:

Competences

  • create physical education lessons with clear and cohesive methodological principles;
  • adopt the best physical education methodological principle in any given situation;
  • Apply appropriate methodological principles to effectively achieve physical education outcomes.

Knowledge 

  • systematically identify the terminology used when referring to physical education methodology;
  • Identify and explain the main criteria of a successful lesson in physical education, focusing on the principles of a learner-centred approach;
  • contrive the methodological process involved in the specific topic / lesson of physical education.

Skills

  • Develop and implement specific methodological principles tailored to achieve physical education outcomes using a learner-centred approach;;
  • Demonstrate the application of methodological principles within a physical education lesson using a learner-centred approach.

 

MQF Level: 6

ECTS Value: 4 ECTS

Self Study Hours: 48

Contact Hours: 20

Assessment Hours: 32

Mode of Delivery:
Face to Face

Assessment Methods

This programme adopts continuous and summative methods of assessment including assignments, online tasks, reflective journals, projects and video presentations. For further details, kindly refer to the Teaching, Learning and Assessment Policy and Procedures.

Suggested Readings

Core Reading List
  1. Alcalá, D.H. & Garijo A.H. (2017) Teaching Games for Understanding: A Comprehensive Approach to Promote Student’s Motivation in Physical Education. Journal of Human Kinetics. 59, 17-27.
  2. Butler J.I. & Griffin L.L., (2010) More Teaching Games for Understanding – Moving Globally. Human Kinetics
  3. Ericsson, I. &. Karlsson, M. K (2012) Motor skills and school performance in children with daily physical education in school – a 9-year intervention study. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sport. 24, (2), 273–278.
  4. Griffin L.L. & Butler J.I. (2005) Teaching Games for Understanding – Theory, Research & Practice. Human Kinetics.
  5. Kleynen M, Braun SM, Rasquin SMC, Bleijlevens MHC, Lexis MAS, Halfens J, et al. (2015) Multidisciplinary Views on Applying Explicit and Implicit Motor Learning in Practice: An International Survey. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0135522. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135522
  6. MagillA. & Anderson D.(2016) Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications 11th Edition. McGraw Hill Education.
  7. Mitchell, S.A., Oslin, J.L., GriffinL. (2013). Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach for Ages 7 to 18. Human Kinetics.
  8. National Association for Sport and Physical Education. (2007). Physical education teacher evaluation tool [Guidance document]. Reston, VA: Author
  9. Schilcutt, J., Oliver, K., Luguetti, C. (2024). An Activist Approach to Physical Education and Physical Activity. Imagining What Might Be.
  10. Schmidt, R. & Lee, T. (2014) Motor Learning and Performance 5th Edition with Web Study Guide: From Principles to Application. Human Kinetics.
  11. Silverman,S & Mercier, K. (2015) Teaching for physical literacy: Implications to instructional design and PETE. Journal of Sport and Health Science,4, 150-155. Available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095254615000265 [Accessed on 8 January 2018]
  12. Stolz S & Pill S. (2014) Teaching Games and Sport for Understanding: Exploring and Reconsidering its Relevance in Physical Education. EPER, 20, 36-71
Supplementary Reading List
  1. Approaches to teaching Physical Education. Available at http://www.meshguides.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/PE-2014.16.0-DAD_MESH_TeachingApproachesSubmitted.pdf [Accessed 2 January 2018]
  2. Stidder, G. & Hayes, S. (2017) The Really Useful Physical Education Book. Learning & Teaching across the 11-16 age range. Second Edition

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