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Orientation Basics and Didactics
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:01.11.2024 13:40:28
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | LSPA_023 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sports Science | Target Audience: | Sports Trainer | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Baiba Smila | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Latvian Academy of Sport Education (LASE) | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | LSPA, Brīvības gatve 333, Riga, LV-1006 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 12 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 24 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 18 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 36 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 60 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 2 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 4 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Previous study courses in the module have been mastered successfully: General Pedagogy, Adult Education, Gen. and Developmental Psychology, Anatomy, Foundations of Physiology, Philosophy of Sport, First Aid, Age-Specific Physiology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide the students with the possibility to master basic theoretical and practical knowledge for teaching the foundations of orienteering in sport pedagogy. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Study content in the field of “Orienteering P+D”. Study environment, assessment. Safety aspects of outdoor activities. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Description of orienteering. Orienteering activities in Latvia and the world. Types of orienteering – running, bike, ski and trail orienteering. Rogaining, indoor orienteering and other orienteering activities. | Lectures | 3.00 | other | |||||
| 3 | Orienteering sports map. Card signs. Scale. Landscape shapes | Classes | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 4 | Orienteering technique (orienteering map using terrain and compass, methods of measuring distance on the map and moving around the terrain, ways of determining direction, understanding and reading a map) | Lectures | 7.00 | other | |||||
| 5 | Specifics of teaching orienteering to people of different ages, genders and technical fitness | Classes | 6.00 | other | |||||
| 6 | Orienteering activities as an element of competition – individual orienteering competitions. | Classes | 3.00 | other | |||||
| 7 | Participation in rural tourism and orienteering camp. Application of orienteering skills in an unfamiliar environment. | Classes | 8.00 | other | |||||
| 8 | Self-assessment of outcomes of the study course. | Lectures | 1.00 | other | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Study content in the field of “Orienteering P+D”. Study environment, assessment. Safety aspects of outdoor activities. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Description of orienteering. Orienteering activities in Latvia and the world. Types of orienteering – running, bike, ski and trail orienteering. Rogaining, indoor orienteering and other orienteering activities. | Lectures | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 3 | Orienteering sports map. Card signs. Scale. Landscape shapes | Classes | 0.50 | other | |||||
| 4 | Orienteering technique (orienteering map using terrain and compass, methods of measuring distance on the map and moving around the terrain, ways of determining direction, understanding and reading a map) | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 5 | Specifics of teaching orienteering to people of different ages, genders and technical fitness | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 6 | Orienteering activities as an element of competition – individual orienteering competitions. | Classes | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 7 | Participation in rural tourism and orienteering camp. Application of orienteering skills in an unfamiliar environment. | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 8 | Self-assessment of outcomes of the study course. | Classes | 0.50 | other | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students’ independent learning is organised individually and/or in working groups. Student independently prepare for seminar classes and interim examinations. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The final assessment of the study course is formed by summing up different tests during the course. Tasks in the study course in Part 1 – in Riga; Tasks in Part 2 – outdoor camp; Student’s attitude towards learning, individual development dynamics. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Will know and will be able to use: Types and nature of orienteering technique; technique and tactics teaching methodology; study-training process safety rules and their organisation; according to the age-specific development and learning peculiarities of students; professional ethics and safety rules, hygiene requirements, sanitary norms and material and technical supplies. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Will be able to independently apply knowledge and skills in planning, organising, leading orienteering study process, choosing and applying appropriate methods, tools and observing pedagogical principles for organising classes in outdoor environment conditions. Chooses appropriate methods for assessing learning achievements. Organises situations close to real life in the study process. To carry out creative and innovative activities, and research activities. To use the global positioning system (GPS), modern technologies for getting feedback, assessing the achievements (actions) of themselves and students. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Uses fact-based, theoretical knowledge and knowledge of patterns in an integrated way, purposefully and critically selects and uses different methods, technologies and teaching methodological materials in the study process for the needs of students and according to the learning outcomes. Organises a study environment appropriate for the objective and tasks of studies. Able to justify the role of feedback, formative and summative assessment in achieving the objective and outcome of studies. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Indriksone L., Smila B. Orientēšanās. I daļa. Rīga: LSPA, 2000. – 83 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Indriksone L., Smila B. Orientēšanās. II daļa. Rīga: LSPA, 2002. – 67 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 3 | Skola “2030” | ||||||||
| 4 | Smila B., Vārna A.,Indriksone L. Orientēšanās pamati. Rīga: LOF, 2016, 52.lpp | ||||||||
| 5 | Orientēšanās lekcijas LSPA KVS sistēmā | ||||||||
| 6 | Tūrisma likums | ||||||||
| 7 | Ārzemju studentiem/For international students: | ||||||||
| 8 | Tourism Law | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Orientēšanās bērniem un jauniešiem/ Svenska Orientierings forbundet. Rīga, 1997. -144 lpp. | ||||||||
| 2 | Magnets | ||||||||
| 3 | Nzorienteering | ||||||||
| 4 | LOF | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Zinātnisko rakstu datu bāzes, elektroniskie informācijas avoti/Databases of scientific articles, electronic sources of information. | ||||||||
