XNB188 Skill Acquisition for Teachers

Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Overview

It is important for movement educators to fully grasp the ramifications of their learning designs in health, physical education and school sports settings. To do this a comprehensive understanding of contemporary motor learning theory and practice is crucial. The disciplinary content that underpins this unit is central to quality practice in the teaching and coaching of movement skills. The knowledge gained will support the design not only of lessons but also extra-curriculum sessions to develop skilled performance. The aim of the unit is to provide you with fundamental knowledge required to assess, design and deliver programmes to children to improve skilled performance.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Recall the underlying theory to underpin the design of effective skill acquisition sessions.
2. Design effective assessment tasks to evaluate skill learning and performance of children, underpinned by relevant theoretical models.
3. Design and deliver effective skill acquisition sessions and programmes based on a constraint-led approach.
4. Critically analyse and make recommendations to improve learning environments
5. Demonstrate appropriate teamwork/collaboration skills in problem solving activities

Content

Learning Approaches

The unit will incorporate face to face lectures and practical tutorials where you will engage in collaborative activities with peers and tutors. You will have an opportunity to design skill learning environments for children in health, physical education and sporting contexts. You are encouraged to take responsibility for your own learning.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Progressive feedback will be available through active engagement during formative learning opportunities. Summative assessment feedback will be provided via return of Assessment Items 1 and 2. Students are encouraged to communicate with the unit coordinator or unit tutor if they have any questions or concerns about the assessment items.

Assessment

Overview

There are two summative assessment items for this unit. Assessment focussed formative learning opportunities will be provided during classes.

Each assessment item is designed to measure your knowledge and mastery of professional skills stated in the leanring outcomes.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Laboratory Book

This assessment task will consist of a range of weekly formative and summative activities that will develop your skills in applying theory to practice to design effective skill acquisition sessions. Specifically, you will develop an understanding of how to assess skill, understand the underpinning theory to design, deliver and reflect on constraint-led sessions. Assessment tasks will include a mixture of individual and group based tasks assessing, analysing, designing, delivering and reflecting on skill acquisition sessions. Assessment is ongoing across the semester.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Written Examination

You will be required to complete a 2 hour Examination consisting of short and extended answer responses based on contemporary motor learning theories.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Resources

Resource Materials

Prescribed text(s)

Renshaw, I., Davids, K., Newcombe, D. & Roberts, W. (2019). The Constraints Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching and Practice Design. London: Routledge.

Recommended text(s)

Chow, J., Button, C., Davids, K., & Renshaw, I. (2021). (2nd edition) Nonlinear Pedagogy in Skill acquisition: An Introduction. London: Routledge.

Davids, K., Button, C. & Bennett, S. (2008). Dynamics of skill Acquisition: A Constraints-led Approach. London: Human Kinetics.

Risk Assessment Statement

You are required to read and abide by the Health and Safety Rules for School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences prior to undertaking any of the laboratories for this unit. These Health and Safety Rules are provided in electronic form on the online teaching site for this unit and are prominently displayed in hardcopy within the laboratory/clinic.