Rationale for teaching pdhpe in schools
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PDHPE aims to promote lifelong healthy and active living through primary school education. It teaches personal development, health choices, and physical education to encourage healthy lifestyles from childhood into adulthood. The goals are to enhance student development and provide knowledge and skills to support physical, social, and emotional well-being.
Rationale for teaching pdhpe in schools
- 1. Rationale for Teaching PDHPE in Schools The teaching of good health is increasingly important in our ever-changing society. Health affects children and adults, so it is important that concepts of personal development, health and physical education are taught in Primary Schools in order to encourage healthy lifestyles into adulthood.
- 2. Aims of Teaching PDHPE PDHPE as taught in Primary Schools in Australia, aims to enhance the students’ development , life-long learning and knowledge and understanding of the skills, values and attitudes which allow healthy, active and long lives. Healthy Lives!
- 3. What is Needed for Healthy Living? Knowledge/Understanding of: Interpersonal Relationships: -Relationships -Family -Communication -Peers -Groups Growth & Development: -Personal Identity -The Body -Sexuality -Changes -Values Personal Health Choices: -Decision making -Nutrition -Health Services -Drugs -Environmental Health -Prevention
- 4. Safe Living: Games & Sports: -Personal Safety -Home/Rural Safety -School/Play Safety -Road Safety -Water Safety -Emergency Procedures -Non-locomotor skills -Locomotor skills -Manipulative skills -Games -Athletics -Aquatics -Playing Active Lifestyle: -Being Active -Effects of Physical Activity
- 5. Gymnastics: Dance: -Locomotor and nonlocomotor skills -Elements of movement -Composition -Locomotor/non-locomotor skills -Elements of dance -Composition Dance styles It is important that students are concerned and aware of their own health and have the knowledge to improve the health of their society in the future. PDHPE in schools strives to achieve better health for individual students and the community through the teaching of the 8 strands.
- 6. Gymnastics: Dance: -Locomotor and nonlocomotor skills -Elements of movement -Composition -Locomotor/non-locomotor skills -Elements of dance -Composition Dance styles It is important that students are concerned and aware of their own health and have the knowledge to improve the health of their society in the future. PDHPE in schools strives to achieve better health for individual students and the community through the teaching of the 8 strands.
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