Physical Education in the School Curriculum:
Aims and objectives of Physical Education; subject curriculum history and current curriculum debate; the nature of Physical Education within education as a whole and the balance between activity and sport. The variety of contexts: A2 and AS level, Academic and Vocational qualifications, and Key Stage 3; cross-curricular themes. Recent curriculum development activities, e.g. Physical Education and School Sport Club Links (PESSCL) and National Strategy, Sports partnerships and the role of School Sports Coordinator/Primary Link Teacher (SSCo/PLT) and Every Child Matters (ECM). Work of the Assessment Reform Group (ARG).

Preparing for Teaching and Learning
Objectives and lesson planning; the 3 part lesson, designing classroom tasks using a variety of resources; preparing units of work and issues in progression; monitoring, assessment and record keeping; using this information to inform your planning; understanding and awarding accurate levels; using simulations and practicals; using visual stimulus; creativity in Physical Education programme and delivery styles.

Assessment
Formative and summative, coursework and presentations, the essay, practical assessment and links to Key Stage 3 documents and specifications, coursework assignments: reports, portfolios; individual and group assignments; oral assessment; competence-based approaches, profiling; grading written work, marking schemes.

Learning outcomes will be assessed through:

An assignment of 3000 words based on a critical evaluation of a teaching resource/activity in the context of its contribution to the wider school curriculum and its place in a scheme of work/Specification. Assesses all learning outcomes.

Bailey R, (2001)Teaching Physical Education, Kogan Page
Baumann A, Bloomfield A, Roughton L (2003), Becoming a Secondary School Teacher, Hodder and Stoughton
Butt G, (2006) Lesson Planning, Continuum
Capel S, Leask M, Turner T (1997) Learning to teach Physical Education in the Secondary School Routledge
Cohen L, Manion L, Morrison K, (2005) A guide to teaching practice. Routledge
Davis B, Bull R, Roscoe J, Roscoe D, (2000) Physical Education and the study of sport, Mosby
Dixie G, (2003) Managing your Classroom, Continuum
Kyriacou C (1997) Effective teaching in schools, Stanley Thornes
Kyriacou C, (2001), Essential Teaching Skills, Stanley Thornes
Mawer M,(1996) The effective teaching of Physical Education, Longman
Mosston M , Ashworth S, (1994) Teaching Physical Education, Macmillan
Newell S, Jeffrey D, (2002) Behaviour Management in the classroom, David Fulton
Petty G, (2006) Teaching Today, Stanley Thornes
School Sport Partnerships OfSTED HMI 2518

Course workshops will draw upon your school experience and help you to interpret that experience in the light of current practice in Physical Education. Some sessions will introduce you to themes through focussed practical tasks, Examining Board publications and leading texts. At other times you will be asked to focus on evidence you collect through your school experience. You will also be asked to use the ideas explored in the sessions in planning your future work. You should use national publications and school and departmental handbooks to learn and develop ideas from. You will also be asked to collaborate with others in preparing and presenting your views on key issues. Your work in this module will be supported through regular meetings with your Subject Mentor. You will be expected to take responsibility for relating the issues addressed in this module to your personal experience and building up evidence in your portfolio. Your subject Mentor and Consortium tutor will support you in this process.

A further 252 hours of independent study will require you to take responsibility for relating the issues addressed in this module to your personal experience and building up evidence in your portfolio. Your Subject Mentor and Course Tutor will support you in this process.

University teaching sessions
Tutorials
Placement School/College meetings with Subject Mentor
University library
www.staffs.ac.uk/uniservices/infoservices/library
www.staffs.ac.uk/a2z4u/
Materials and Links on PGCE Blackboard for instance: GCSE bitesize, TTS online curriculum,
Exemplar Government/Policy/Awarding Body Sites
www.qca.org.uk/
www.aqa.org.uk/
www.dfes.standards.
www.nc.uk.net
www.ofsted.gov.uk
www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/subjects/pe/national strategy
www.peitte.net