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Honour Specialist Health and Physical Education AQ (Queen’s, Winter 2025, Online)

January 20, 2025 to April 4, 2025

  • Category: AQ, Online
  • Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
  • Topic: Health and Physical Education
  • Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10), Junior (grades 4-6), Senior (grades 11-12)

The underlying purpose of the Additional Qualification course Honour Specialist Health and Physical Education is to focus on curriculum leadership. The course addresses contexts and theories underpinning the study of Health and Physical Education. Pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and evaluation, technology, child and adolescent development related to program planning and implementation are addressed. Candidates will explore leadership issues in various ways including independent reading and reflection. Candidates will work with colleagues in the class and participate in projects including a course culminating activity which is designed to synthesize learning from the course for application to teaching practice. The course is designed to promote strategies that support students’ conceptual development and enduring understandings.

This leadership course has been developed for teachers who already have a deep level of learning about subject content and pedagogy gained from practical teaching experience, professional reading and previous course work.

Topics in this course include:

  • Learning about teaching Healthy Active Living Education
  • Current issues and trends in physical and health education
  • Available research and literature
  • The case for/against co-educational physical and health education
  • Effective leadership, decision making and communication skills
  • Alternative assessment opportunities
  • Reflective Dynamic Assignment.

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