Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOL I | ||||||||||
Course Unit Code | PED101 | ||||||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 4 | ||||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||||
Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||||
Course Contents | - Introduction: Definition of pedagogy, the meaning and the importance of pedagogy, the role of pedagogy in our days, the Cypriot physical education curriculum Aims and objectives - Conceptual analysis of basic terms: Health, physical activity, exercise for health, different between health-relate fitness and skill-relate fitness, school and the role that can adopt, applications for promotion of physical activity. The purpose “Lifelong health-related exercise”. - Teaching models of physical education: The health education model, socio - moral, Character and responsibility models, sport education model, teaching games for understanding. - Developmental differences: Physical growth and development, changes that compose the phenomenon of growth, motor development, theory of “sensitive phases”, morphological traits of motor skills, types of movement. - Content of physical education: functional and expressive movement, basic motor skills, motor skills with shift, motor skills without shift, skills of handling, meaning of movement , knowledge of body, meaning of effort. | ||||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The teaching of the course consists of lectures for the theoretical background. Also following the principles of collaborative learning in order to provide a better educational and learning experience to students, the content will be offered through class discussions. | ||||||||||
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |