Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor and Lecturer
Melissa Johnstone
Contact via 0298509807
265, X5B
By Appointment
Tutor
Raewyn Burden
Tutor
Emma Sutherland
Lecturer
Helen Little
Tutor & Lecturer
Lynda Gorman
Tutor
Katie Wright
Sandie Wong
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit examines health, wellbeing, nutrition and safety of children from infancy to 12 years. Implications for children, families and communities are addressed, including practices in a range of settings. Issues and debates arising from research, available technology, community attitudes and values are critically examined. This unit introduces students to the syllabus content associated with the personal development, health and physical education (PDHPE) key learning area with particular focus on the safe living, personal health choices, and growth and development strands. Skills and knowledge in planning, teaching and assessing PDHPE programs are examined, including modifications to the curriculum to meet the needs of diverse learners.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
In order to successfully complete the assessment you must:
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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EYLF & PDHPE | 10% | No | Open 5 April, 2pm-11.59pm |
Critical Evaluation | 45% | No | 3 May, 11.59pm |
Overview of Unit | 45% | No | Exam period |
Due: Open 5 April, 2pm-11.59pm
Weighting: 10%
Teachers use a range of documents to support the health and well being of infants and children. Key documents are the Early Years Learning Framework (for Birth to 5 years) and the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (Kindergarten to Year 6) Syllabus. The purpose of this quiz is to support your understanding of these key documents.
There will be 10 questions, worth 1 mark each.
This online quiz will be open for 10 hours, Thursday 5 April, from 2pm - 11.59pm. You will have one hour to complete and only one attempt is permitted.
Required readings
http://docs.education.gov.au/node/2632
'http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/pdhpe/
Online quizzes are an individual assessment task and MUST BE COMPLETED by each student individually.
Due: 3 May, 11.59pm
Weighting: 45%
There has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of healthy eating during early childhood.
For this essay, you will critically review key articles (provided) on healthy eating in early childhood.
Further information and the marking criteria will be available on iLearn.
This Assessment Task relates to the following Learning Outcomes:
Due: Exam period
Weighting: 45%
The exam will cover content from lectures and your textbook.
Additional details will be published in the Assessment Guide available on iLearn.
Students are required to be available throughout the duration of the exam period http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/examination/procedure.html If you are unavailable on the day of the exam and it's not due to unavoidable circumstances such as hospitalisation, then you will be marked as absent from the exam and you will fail the unit. The exam cannot be completed before the date listed in the University exam timetable.
Students who live outside of the Sydney Metropolitan Area who are registered for a regional exam centre will be able to complete the exam at their exam centre.
Delivery
ECH130 has a total of three (3) contact hours per week, including 2 x 1hr lectures and 1 x 1hr tutorial.
The textbook for ECH130 is:
Garvis, S. & Pendergast, D. (2017). Health and wellbeing in childhood (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
For those wanting to make a head start, the following chapters will be required reading: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 19, 20, 23, and 24.
You must have access to this textbook throughout the unit. Please purchase the textbook as soon as possible.
External Students
Attendance at the on-campus is voluntary. You must register for the on-campus no later than 17 March if you wish to attend. Details will be available on iLearn from the first week of session 1.
Unit Expectations
Assessment
When preparing your assignments, it is essential that:
Final Submissions
Assignment extensions and late penalties
Applications for extensions must be made via AskMQ at https://ask.mq.edu.au as a "Special Considerations" request before the submission date. Students who experience a disruption to their studies through ill-health or misadventure are able to apply for this request. Extensions can only be granted if they meet the Special Considerations Policy and are submitted via ask.mq.edu.au. This will ensure consistency in the consideration of such requests is maintained.
In general, there should be no need for extensions except through illness or misadventure that would be categorised as unavoidable disruption according to the University definition of same, and currently available at: https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policies/special-consideration
Late submissions without extension will receive a penalty of 5% reduction of the total possible mark for each day late (including weekends and public holidays). You are reminded that submitting even just 1 day late could be the difference between passing and failing a unit. Late penalties are applied by unit convenors or their delegates after tasks are assessed.
No assessable work will be accepted after the return/release of marked work on the same topic. If a student is still permitted to submit on the basis of unavoidable disruption, an alternative topic may be set.
Students should keep an electronic file of all assessments. Claims regarding "lost" assessments cannot be made if the file cannot be produced. It is also advisable to keep an electronic file of all drafts and the final submission on a USB untouched/unopened after submission. This can be used to demonstrate easily that the assessment has not been amended after the submission date.
Department of Educational Studies (EC) Academic Honesty Guidelines:
All assignments should cite and provide full bibliographical details of all material that you have used to inform or support your ideas. At the Department of Educational Studies, students are required to use the American Psychological Association (APA) referencing procedures.
Final Grades
The final grade a student receives signifies their overall performance in meeting the learning outcomes for the unit. The number assigned to a grade (Standard Numerical Grade or SNG) reflects the extent to which student attainment matches the grade descriptors.
Your raw mark for the unit (i.e., the total of your marks for each assessment item) may not be the same as the SNG which you receive. Results may be scaled to ensure there is a degree of comparability across the university, so that units with the same past performances of their students should achieve similar results. The process of scaling does not change the order of marks among students. A student who receives a higher raw score mark than another will also receive a higher final scaled mark.
Please note that the order of lecture topics is subject to change, and it is best to check Ilearn and the Detailed Student Guide (on ilearn) for final details.
Week |
Lecture Topic |
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Introduction to Health in Early Childhood |
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Concepts of Health & Variations of Typical |
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Sustainability in Early Childhood Settings |
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Indigenous Health |
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PDHPE & EYLF I |
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PDHPE & EYLF II |
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Illness and Immunisation |
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Water Safety |
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Sleep |
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Physical Activity |
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Road Safety |
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Managing Risk in Outdoor Play |
7 |
Nutrition |
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Food Handling & Storage |
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Infection Control |
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Allergies |
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Maltreatment Part I |
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Maltreatment Part II |
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Breastfeeding |
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Body Image |
11 |
Bullying |
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Social and Emotional Learning |
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Mental Health Part II |
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Mental Health Part II |
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Wellbeing Part I |
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Wellbeing Part II: Moving beyond ‘school readiness’: empowering children as advocates and global citizens.
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