Certificate in Professional Development Programme on New Paradigm of Learning and Teaching in Physical Education [5 weeks]

Description
The programme aims to acquaint serving Physical Education (PE) teachers with theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to design innovative PE curricula and pedagogies for promoting students’ cognitive, social, psychomotor as well as cultural learning in schools in response to current issues in Hong Kong school PE.

Upon completion of the programme, the participants will be able to:

demonstrate critical understanding of the development of school PE worldwide;
distinguish the strengths and weaknesses of school PE with reference to the current issues in Hong Kong school PE;
develop and test curricular plans for the application of alternative curricular and pedagogical PE models like Physical Literacy Concept, Fundamental Movement Concept, Teaching Games for Understanding, Assessment for Learning, Problem Based Learning, Co-operative Learning, Fitness and Health Education, Sports Education as well as Mosston’s Spectrum of Teaching Styles; cultivating students’ cognitive, social, psychomotor and
cultural learning through PE; and appraise critically the feasibility of promoting and implementing various innovative models for teaching PE in response to Hong Kong school PE.