Being Healthy, Well and Active

This subject prepares Teacher Candidates to use evidence-informed approaches to understanding and advancing the factors that contribute to student health, wellbeing and engagement in the primary and early childhood years. This includes teaching Health and Physical Education, promoting social and emotional learning, enhancing healthy active lifestyles, and supporting wellbeing for students as members of schools, families and communities. This subject references the Australian/Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Frameworks and Curricula. This subject aims to explore how the Health, Physical Education and Dance curricula can be designed to help students understand health as a crucial enabler for learning and development from birth.