Course Title: PE (I II III IV)
Course Code: According to specific activities and instructors
Course Credits: 2
Teaching Hours: 32
Prerequisites: None
Overview
This course develops each student’s competence and confidence in a broad range of games, sports and physical activities. Students develop fundamental movement skills, progressing to more games and sports-specific skills in non-competitive and competitive environments that foster positive feelings of success and enjoyment. This course focuses on encouraging students to make informed decisions related to health and physical activity and develop positive attitudes towards a healthy lifestyle. This should include participation in regular and varied physical education experiences, which provide the foundation for a lifelong commitment to valuing and leading a healthy lifestyle. They should also include systematic and explicit teaching of personal and social skills to give students a basis for resilience and the resourceful management of their own lives.
Learning Outcomes
l Values and Attitudes
To cultivate student’s appreciation and keep promise of the healthy lifestyle.
l Skills
To develop student’s skills in making, communicating and acting upon health decisions, moving with competence and confidence and forming and maintaining positive relationships.
l Knowledge
To develop student’s knowledge and understanding about: ways to enhance personal and community health and wellbeing and the composition, performance and appraisal of movement.
Activities
Football, basketball, Tai Ji, tennis, table tennis, teakwood, Latin dancing, Roller skating, badminton, etc.
Assessment
Students can choose their activity for the whole semester and different activities have different assessment strategies. Generally, the test is divided into two parts and there are two chances for each parts, if the outcome is not satisfactory, the second chance can be taken, and the highest score is the final score.