Basic Civil Engineering notes on Transportation Engineering & Modes of Transport
Teaching pdhpe in primary schools
1. Building a Positive Association
with PDHPE
Lesson plans should ensure maximum participation
to avoid students waiting for their turn.
Never allow a student to be put “on show”, e.g.
dribbling a ball in front of others.
Avoid mundane, repetitive exercises such as running
laps.
2. Modifying games to suit
students individual abilities.
Reducing the emphasis on
skill and focusing on
understanding the game.
Questioning which is tactical
and developmental.
3. The Jakarta Declaration (1997):
promote social responsibility
for health.
Ask students to keep a diary of
Promoting their physical activity to
Good encourage healthy lifelong
habits.
Health in
Schedule
Primary time during
Schools each school day
for a “fruit break”.
4. Ensure that the explanation of the lesson is
substantially shorter than the actual practical
component.
Explain through demonstration.
Expectations should be high AND realistic.
Keep corrective feedback to a minimum.
5. Setting & Achieving
Goals
Problem Solving
Make the significance of PDHPE
explicit to students
Decision Making
Healthier Well-being
6. Board of Studies, NSW. (c2007). Personal Development, Health and Physical
Education K-6 Syllabus. Sydney: Board of Studies:
http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/primary/pdhpe
Curry, C. (2012). Unit 101576: Personal Development, Health and Physical
Education. Lecture Notes from the University of Western Sydney.