BA (Hons) Physical Education and School Sport with Sandwich Placement
Bachelor's degree
In Wolverhampton
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Bachelor's degree
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Wolverhampton
This innovative course has been approved by the Association for Physical Education in recognition of the high quality professional development, including qualifications, provided. The course is designed to provide you with rich learning experiences to equip you with the tools to teach and coach. These experiences will provide you with planning, leading and reflection skills that form the basis of fulfilling the role of a teacher and coach.
Placement modules are a leading feature of the course allowing you to gain hands-on experience and mentoring. You will develop your ability to work within professional settings to facilitate a future career within Physical Education and School Sport.
For more information about sport at te University of Wolverhampton please see our WLV Sport Page.
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1. You will experience learning opportunities and assessments within practical contexts informed by contemporary theory and research.
2. Placement modules will allow you to gain hands-on experience and to receive mentorship within professional environments throughout the course.
3. Our employability modules enable you to explore career pathways in physical education and school sport and engage in career development planning that prepares you for graduate-level employment in a competitive industry.
4. Each year you will have opportunities to participate in career development activities and network with employers from the Sports Industry.
5. You will be taught by teaching staff that have track records with the teaching profession and in the leadership and management of Physical Education Departments and School Sport.
6. You will complete a sandwich placement year in a physical education and school sport context. Our sandwich placement involves you taking a full-year work placement, which can be undertaken abroad. A number of students in our department have been successful in securing places
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- Physical Education
Course programme
Module: 4SR045
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Walsall Campus
The module will explore the role of teacher and learner within aesthetic activities. Learner experiences will represent an opportunity to develop subject-knowledge and develop teaching experiences which support rich and inclusive learning experiences. Pedagogical strategies intertwined with the delivery of aesthetic activities and the experience as a learner will form the basis of this module.
Module: 4SR034
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Walsall Campus
You will explore sport as subject-matter for Physical Education, identifying different possibilities for learning across psychomotor, cognitive-reflective, affective and socio-motor domains. Skillfulness will become a core conceptual element of investigation. You will look to explore the contextual elements of skillfulness through the interaction of people and unfolding environments. You will work towards designing a learning activity in which they are able to identify the elements of skillfulness which this activity aims to challenge and develop.
Module: 4SR056
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Walsall Campus
You will identify your current knowledge, experience and interests in a selected area of study and create an action plan to support your progression into Higher Education. You will describe how your previous experiences have provided a platform for you to study sport at university. This will provide a basis to create and develop an action plan for your first year of study. In doing so, you will develop your ability to retrieve information and improve your communication skills.
Module: 4SR042
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Walsall Campus
You will explore sports as subject-matter for learning in Physical Education and School Sport. This will help you improve your knowledge and understanding of sports. You will examine how practices of sport may used to develop performative notions of knowledge through skillfulness and the potential impact of such notions.
Module: 4SR041
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Walsall Campus
The module will encourage you to consider career aspirations and the journey towards such goals. You will explore what it means to be employable within various educational and sporting settings. As you research and appreciate what employers value, you will identify employability skills and processes related to your career goals. This will include supporting the use of transferable skills for Physical Education and the sport and physical activity industry as you develop an action plan that will enable you to achieve your professional development and career goals.
Module: 4SR037
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Walsall Campus
Students will explore the anatomy of teaching styles and the relationship between teacher and learner decision making.
Module: 5SR037
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Walsall Campus
This module will support your understanding of how to design, lead and manage learning activities. You will explore how learning tasks can determine what pupils are able to demonstrate and develop. Using this understanding you will analyse subject-matter to develop your own learning activities with the aim of differentiating and progressing identified learning. You will use your understanding of how to analyse and manage the complexity of unfolding sports environments to construct your learning activities.
Module: 5SR047
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Walsall Campus
The module will require students to consider the planning, delivery and evaluation in the lead up to running an event.
Module: 5SR038
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Walsall Campus
Learning experiences within the module will focus upon developing your capability to analyse subject-matter for learning with a view to identifying components of skillfulness within complex unfolding sports contexts. You will apply this analysis to identify how to differentiate and develop identified components of this skilfulness. Using this understanding you will focus on designing problem-based learning activities to differentiate and progress the identified components of skilfulness.
Module: 5SR035
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Walsall Campus
This module requires you to undertake a work-based placement related to the sport & physical activity industry. You will develop your identity as a professional in your field, including a set of values, skills, and attributes required for graduate employment. You will build on your understanding and self-awareness developed at Level 4 to negotiate a personal learning agreement, including a set of developmental goals that will enhance your employability. Both during and following your placement, you will reflect on your learning and heightened self-awareness of areas for further development. You will develop your capacity to articulate your readiness for employment to others.
Module: 5SR043
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Walsall Campus
You will consider a range of historical, political and sociological factors that impact on education. More specifically, you will be asked to show knowledge and critical understanding of how such factors shape conceptions and practices of Physical Education and School Sport. You will apply this knowledge and understanding to inform pedagogical practice.
Module: 5SR040
Credits: 20
Period: 2
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BA (Hons) Physical Education and School Sport with Sandwich Placement