Welcome to EDF4423 - Physical Education. This unit is taught as part of the undergraduate degree program of Bachelor of Sport & Outdoor Recreation/Bachelor of Education and the Graduate Diploma of Secondary Education. It may be taken as a unit on-campus or via off-campus modes (OCL or Open Universities Austrralia[OUA]).
This blog is all about my thoughts about teaching this unit. It is supposed to provide future teachers with insights into what it means to teach. According to Crowe and Berry (2007) "...one important aspect of...becoming a teacher involves learning to think like a teacher" (p. 32). The thoughts in this blog is a small part of 'researching' my own practice (especially as it pertains to OCL/OUA, distance learning and the space around using intergrated technologies). Furthermore, “…teacher education struggles with the contradiction in practice between imposing (perhaps unintentionally) solutions on student teachers and assisting them to develop their own responses to their own situation themselves…” (Loughran, 2004).
Importantly, also in this is the fact that I have asked you to undertake, via Assessment 4, a reflection or thoughts on your own practice and engagement in this unit, so hopefully you can see the important links about such practices. Please feel free to offer as much feedback as possible via this blog by making a posting on the process and what it has to offer student-teachers.
Please do not hesitate to contact me via email (trent.brown@education.monash.edu.au) should you require clarification about any issue related to this unit, EDF4423 Physical Education.
Enjoy this unit and the semester!
Trent
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Thinking about semester 2 and EDF4423 already!
Note - this has been cut and pasted from another site:
Here i am, first posting on the Ning and this occurs at 10pm at night in week 5 of semester 1. I realise how quickly semester 2 is going to come around and this requires a bit of planning on my behalf as unit coordinator to unit materials (unit guide, reading, etc) ready.
What do the students want from their class?
How will this be different from the HOPE class that students take in semester 1?
What are the differences going to be between those studying on campus and those studying off campus?
Some of my ideas are spinning around my head at the moment. I want to try and create an online portal (the gymnasium) where students enter and 'choose' topic areas for their own information and knowledge, which might also be able to be used as part of the assesment.
I was reading a paper today by Judith Rink (2007, Quest) which discusses the importance of or the differences between discipline study and that which occurs as pedagogy. It resonated with me a little bit because all students, irrespective of OCL or on campus, Grad Dip Ed (Sec) or SOR have really come through degrees that 'promote' discipline thinking, gaining the knowledge of anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, motor development, biomechanics, etc etc. This unit, the 'methods' class offers opportunity in the pedagogical aspects...so how am I going to manage that tension between discipline study and pedagogical outcomes?
More to come later.
Here i am, first posting on the Ning and this occurs at 10pm at night in week 5 of semester 1. I realise how quickly semester 2 is going to come around and this requires a bit of planning on my behalf as unit coordinator to unit materials (unit guide, reading, etc) ready.
What do the students want from their class?
How will this be different from the HOPE class that students take in semester 1?
What are the differences going to be between those studying on campus and those studying off campus?
Some of my ideas are spinning around my head at the moment. I want to try and create an online portal (the gymnasium) where students enter and 'choose' topic areas for their own information and knowledge, which might also be able to be used as part of the assesment.
I was reading a paper today by Judith Rink (2007, Quest) which discusses the importance of or the differences between discipline study and that which occurs as pedagogy. It resonated with me a little bit because all students, irrespective of OCL or on campus, Grad Dip Ed (Sec) or SOR have really come through degrees that 'promote' discipline thinking, gaining the knowledge of anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, motor development, biomechanics, etc etc. This unit, the 'methods' class offers opportunity in the pedagogical aspects...so how am I going to manage that tension between discipline study and pedagogical outcomes?
More to come later.
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