Skip to content

Planning and Implementation of Physical Education:
Child-appropriate Physical Education

This module provides first insights into a physical education curriculum for primary school in a country or jurisdiction. The different areas of a primary physical education curriculum will be presented as main topics in the first, theoretical part of the course (1 hour). Student teachers will have to prepare teaching activities in each curriculum area for the subsequent course. This preparation work will be done in groups and the activities will be implemented in the practical part of the course in a gym (2 hours). A template for lesson preparation will be used to prepare and describe the teaching activities and feedback from peers and the teacher educator will have to be collected during and after the implementation of the activities.

Suggested Number of ECTs

1

Total Workload 
4 hours

Lecture - 1 hours
Seminar - 2
Independent Work  - 1 hours

TEACHING METHODOLOGIES

Seminars (small group of max. 25 students) with lecture part and practical seminar part in the gym, Group work (preparation of lesson examples that will be implemented by the students in the gym)

FACILITIES

Classroom (lecture part)
Indoor sports hall (practical part)

Dimensions Core
D2S1
D2S2
D2S3

Dimensions Extended
D2K3
D2S6

Indicative Content
Introduction to Year 1 Physical Education
Theory-Based Lecture (1 hour)
- course description PE 1
- curriculum primary school
- seminar topics
- assignment seminars

 

 

Lesson preparation
Theory-Based Lecture (2 hours)
- Written lesson preparation
- Structure of a lesson
- Didactic-methodical structure grid
Characteristics of good physical education
Theory-Based Lecture (1 hour)
- 8 Characteristics of good physical education according to Ulf Gebken (2005)
- ZEN: Prepare - Develop - Follow-up (Kuhn, 2009)

MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES

LO1 consider the problems of teaching, instruction, and curriculum regarding planning, implementation, and evaluation of physical education classes. 
LO2 plan and carry out activities within the framework of physical education classes, considering didactic and methodical principles.