| CODE | PRE4105 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Teaching the Mini Games and Organising the Field Day through the Physical Education Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 04 - Years 4, 5 in Modular UG or PG Cert Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Early Childhood and Primary Education | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | In the first part students will become familiar with the pedagogy and content of teaching the mini games of tag rugby, Mini soccer, Mini basketball, Mini volleyball, Mini handball and cooperative games. Students are introduced to modern trends in Physical Education teaching. Concepts of Brain Gym, thematic and integration concepts are also tackled. In the second part students will go in depth in the organizational, delivery and managerial aspects of a primary school field day. Students are involved in the managing and running of a field day within a chosen primary school. Students work in groups so that skills of management, decision making, improvisation, design, planning, communication and presentation will be assessed during the delivery of the field day within the school. Reading List: - Graham. G., Teaching Children Physical Education, Becoming a Master Teacher, 2001, Human Kinetics. - Winn K., Field Days Survival Guide, For planning the best field day ever !, 2005, Greta Activities publishing company. - Best of Field Day Ideas, Over 10 Field day Ideas from the award winning PE Central Website. www.pecentral.org - Pickup. I., Price.L., Teaching Physical Education in the Primary School: A Developmental Approach , 2007, continuum international publishing group. - Stidder. G., Hayes, S., (Eds.) The Really Useful Physical Education Book: Learning and Teaching Across the 7-14 Age Range , 2010, Routledge. - Lawrence. J., Teaching Primary Physical Education , 2012, Sage publications. - Pickard, A., Maude, P., 2014, Teaching Physical Education Creatively (Learning to Teach in the Primary School Series). - Griggs, G. An Introduction to Primary Physical Education 2012, Routledge. - Allen, W. Games, Ideas and Activities for the Primary PE 2013, (Classroom Gems). |
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| RULES/CONDITIONS | Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST TAKE PRE1123 | |||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Practical and Fieldwork | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Johann Bellizzi Ramon Chircop Genc Dapi Andrew Darmanin Rose Ann Gatt Robert Portelli Ivan Riolo (Co-ord.) Samantha Tabone |
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