Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Mental Health, Wellbeing and Positive Relationships

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
TCHE2639	Bundoora Campus	Undergraduate	360H Education	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2020, Sem 1 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 1 2025

Course Coordinator: Carl Ridgeway

Course Coordinator Phone: By Email

Course Coordinator Email: carl.ridgeway@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Bundoora West

Course Coordinator Availability: By Appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

TCHE2625 Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education

TCHE2658 Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education

Course Description

You will explore the impact of modern lifestyle behaviours and youth issues on mental health, wellbeing and relationships. Emphasis will be placed on teaching pedagogy around the issues of sex education, mental health, drug and alcohol education, cyberbullying, and building positive relationships. Cross professional, gender and cultural understanding and philosophic enquiry will be debated through discussions. You will also critically examine issues and strategies available to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT in learning and teaching.

 

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes

In this course, you will develop the following program learning outcomes:

• Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and technical knowledge in practical applications in Health, Physical Education and Sport
• Analyse and evaluate student-centred learning approaches to plan effectively for differentiation in health, physical education and sport
• Apply initiative, curiosity, creativity, judgement, critical thinking and problem solving skills and demonstrate the capacity to work responsibly, both individually and collaboratively, to address challenges in local and global contexts
• Create a safe and engaging learning environment using inclusive strategies, sustainable practices and digital technologies for diverse audiences

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Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

	AITSL Standards
CLO1. Analyse sociocultural influences that affect mental health and wellbeing, human sexuality and relationships, and demonstrate understanding of issues and strategies available to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT in learning and teaching.	2.1, 4.5
CLO2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the sex and drug education content, and design learning sequences and lesson plans for effective teaching strategies.	2.3, 3.2
CLO3. Demonstrate an understanding of assessment strategies involved in the development of a P-10 health and physical education curriculum, and evaluate teaching strategies within the context of the Victorian Curriculum HPE (E.g. Informal, formal, diagnostic, formative, summative).	2.3, 5.1
CLO4. Demonstrate effective skills in communicating and collaborating in professional contexts

Overview of Learning Activities

Your learning in this course will involve a range of face-to-face and online activities including lectures, workshops, practical activities, readings, collaborative group work, class discussion and individual reflection.

Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT University will support your access to learning resources for this course. Readings from current educational literature will be provided through your online course site and will be drawn from highly regarded academic journals, books and conferences as well as reports, websites and other online resources.

The University Library provides extensive scholarly resources to supplement your suggested readings and research and is able to request books or articles from any library in the world. Guides to the literature in your discipline area are available from http://rmit.libguides.com/sb.php?subject_id=67929

Assistance with referencing and avoiding plagiarism is available here http://www1.rmit.edu.au/library/referencing

The Library and the Study and Learning Centre are also on hand to support and assist in the development of your academic skills to make best use of such resources within your academic studies. http://www1.rmit.edu.au/library

Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes. Assessment will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of your learning. You will be able to develop your work in relation to your own specific areas of interest in your professional practice.

 

Assessment task (%)	CLO	AITSL Standards
Research project: Investigating strategies to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT in learning and teaching (Group; 30%)	1, 4	2.1, 4.5
Teaching resource - Sexuality/mental health and wellbeing program in schools (50%)	1, 2, 3	2.1, 2.3, 3.2
Developing an assessment tool and rubric to assess student learning on the content area of mental health, sexuality education, drug and alcohol, wellbeing and relationships (20%)	1, 2, 3	2.3, 5.1

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program manager or the Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions which are available for review online: http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/assessment