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Details for EDU113 Wellbeing and Care

Wellbeing and Care: Health, Safety and Nutrition is designed to develop teacher education students’ understanding of the importance of health, safety and nutrition for learning and development. and to understand issues that are important for the well-being of children both within and outside of the Early Childhood and Primary School education settings. The subject serves to equip beginning teachers to understand their students as people and be pastorally responsive to them so they develop secure and supportive relationships in safe and supportive learning environments. It explores a workable learning environment and classroom routines that maximise learning in Christian or alternate school contexts. 

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: EDU113
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Michael Parzakonis
Debra Williams

Prerequisite

The following are prerequisites:

  • EDU103 Foundations in Christian Learning and Teaching 
  • EDU116 Introduction to Learning Theory 

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Describe how historical and theoretical perspectives of health, safety, wellbeing and nutrition inform current legislative requirements, government policies and industry standards relevant to children’s health and wellbeing in early childhood education and care settings and schools.
  2. Explain the role that leaders and advocates in a service and teachers in a school context have in ensuring practices and conditions that support the health and wellbeing of children and staff
  3. Identify strategies that support inclusive participation and engagement of children across the full range of abilities, and provide explicit strategies to support students’ wellbeing and safety – legally and educationally – in a range of service/school contexts.
  4. Informed by a holistic approach to the management of health, safety and contemporary issues in the early childhood environment, recognise and reflect on learning opportunities and pedagogical practices that enhance children’s learning and development in the domains of health, nutrition, wellbeing and physical activity.
  5. Illustrate how the relevant legislative, administrative and organisational policies, including codes of ethics and conduct, impact service and school policies and procedures inform learning environments/classroom practice.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge and understandings of practical approaches to managing children, including involving parents/carers, so that learning environments /classrooms are safe and supportive learning environments.

Subject Content

  1. Historical and theoretical perspectives of health, safety, wellbeing, and nutrition.
  2. Legislative requirements, government policies, and industry standards. 
  3. National Physical Activity Guidelines 
  4. Legislative frameworks that support inclusive participation and engagement of students across the full range of abilities providing safe and supportive classrooms. 
    • Multi-Tiered System of Support
  5. Clear expectations and Responses 
    • Managing Classroom Behaviour
  6. The Wellbeing Framework 
  7. Planning, implementing and evaluating physical activity and healthy eating learning opportunities 
  8. Principles of active supervision
  9. Children’s Safe Sleep and Rest 
  10. Child Protection  
  11. National Child Safe Standards 
  12. Children’s Rights 

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Face to face (extensive)
  • Face to face (intensive)
  • Online e-learning (synchronous)

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

  1. Critical Reflection: Forum Posts (20%)
  2. Minor Project (30%)
  3. Major Project (50%)

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