EDUC 9N722 - Senior: Health and Physical Education
Programming Description
Senior Health and Physical Education provides opportunities for students to develop the knowledge, skills, and habits that support healthy, active living, well-being, positive relationships, and informed decision-making. Educators play an important role in creating learning environments where all students can participate, experience success, build confidence, and see themselves reflected in learning.
In this course, you will explore professional knowledge, instructional practices, and leadership considerations that support effective Senior Health and Physical Education programming in Ontario schools. Drawing on curriculum, policy, research, and professional experience, you will examine how learning supports active living, movement competence, healthy living, and transferable living skills. You will also consider how equity, accessibility, Indigenous peoples’ perspectives, student voice, and culturally responsive practice shape planning, instruction, assessment, and engagement.
Through reflection, inquiry, collaboration, and application, you will develop practical resources and professional learning products that support meaningful, inclusive, and responsive programs for diverse learners in Ontario’s Senior Division.
Learner Outcomes
What you’ll learn and do in Senior Division, Health and Physical Education:
• Analyze the relationships among curriculum, policy, research, and professional standards that inform Senior Health and Physical Education programming in Ontario.
• Evaluate factors that influence student participation, engagement, achievement, safety, and well-being in Health and Physical Education learning environments.
• Design learning experiences that support active living, movement competence, healthy living, health literacy, and transferable living skills.
• Integrate assessment and evaluation practices that promote learner growth, student agency, and meaningful evidence of learning.
• Apply equitable, accessible, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed approaches to planning, instruction, assessment and learning design.
• Examine how identity, lived experience, relationships, and social contexts shape teaching, learning, and participation in Health and Physical Education.
• Create safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environments that foster belonging, positive relationships, leadership and student well-being.
• Synthesize curriculum expectations, professional knowledge, and evidence-informed practices into a coherent professional practice plan.
• Collaborate with families, colleagues, community partners, and other professionals to enhance H&PE programs and support student success.
• Reflect critically on professional practice to strengthen instructional decision-making, leadership capacity, and ongoing professional growth.
Prerequisites
1) OCT MEMBERSHIP confirming you are an OCT member with an undergraduate degree.
2) YOUR UNDERGRADUATE/GRADUATE UNIVERSITY TRANSCRIPT(S)*
Your transcript(s) must show the equivalent of 2.0 full undergraduate/graduate credits in Kinesiology, Health, Physical Education, etc.
OR
Intermediate Basic Qualification in Health and Physical Education in lieu of 2.0 university degree credits.
