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About Study Course

Department: Latvian Academy of Sport Education (LASE)
Credit points / ECTS:2.67 / 4
Course supervisor:Zinta Galeja
Study type:Part time, Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Pedagogy; Sports Trainer
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Sports Science

Objective

To acquire competence to promote health in an educational institution: to know theoretical models of health promotion and education and how they are applied in practice – in the study process and extracurricular work. To know different approaches to implementing health education. To understand education on healthy lifestyle and environment in maintaining health.

Prerequisites

Study courses mastered: Educational Psychology for Teachers, Teacher’s Professional Skills, Social-Emotional Learning, Legal Aspects of Pedagogical Process, Management of Educational Institution, Theory of Sport, Innovative Information Communication Technologies and Methods in Sport Pedagogy, Biomechanics and Ergonomics, General and Physical Activity Biochemistry, Quantitative Research in Sport and Health Education, Nutrition, Pre-School Sport Paedagogy, General and Age-Specific Physiology, Physiology of Physical Activities, Human Anatomy and Dynamic Anatomy, Environmental Health, Health Promoting Physical Activities, Foundations and Methodology of Basketball, Foundations and Methodology of Volleyball, Foundations and Methodology of Football, Foundations and Methodology of Floorball, Foundations and Methodology of Handball, Foundations and Methodology of Track and Field Exercises, Foundations and Methodology of Swimming, Outdoor and Adventure Activities I, II, III, Foundations and Methodology of Self-Defence, Foundations and Methodology of Track and Field, Rhythmics and Rhythmic Combinations, History of Sport, Philosophy of Sport, Sport in Multicultural Environment and Olympic Education, Sport Medicine, Professional Communication and Terminology I (English, German, Russian), Professional Communication and Terminology II (English, German, Russian), Professional Ethics, Teacher’s Placement I, II, III.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1. Knows the curriculum in the field of health and physical activity.
2. Understands and evaluates the importance of factors affecting health, lifestyle choices, as well as the importance of a health-promoting educational environment.
3. Knows health-promoting theoretical models.
4. Knows the forms and methods of organising health promotion and educational training for ensuring a meaningful learning process and extracurricular work.
5. Knows the approaches to assessing the learning outcomes in the process of implementation of health promotion, techniques for involvement of pupils in assessment.

Skills

6. Develops a health-promoting project, models a health education lesson.
7. Selects study strategies, forms of organisation, methods according to the content of the field of health and physical activity, learning outcomes, promotion of pupils’ self-directed learning.
8. Adapts situations close to life to be used in the health promotion and education process.
9. Selects purposefully and adapts methodological materials and aids available on a digital platform to pupils’ learning needs for ensuring health literacy.
10. Exploits technology opportunities to ensure pupils’ research, digital tools for assessment and feedback.

Competence

11. Plans health promotion and education work at school. Demonstrates health literacy.
12. Demonstrates pedagogical skills by modelling a health-promoting project, a lesson.
13. Creates, structures a self-assessment work portfolio by selecting and summarising materials in the study process.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Health, physical activity and security (sports and health teacher), VMS 7Bachelor’sRequired
Health, physical activity and security (sports and health teacher), VMSN 7Bachelor’sRequired
Health, physical activity and security (sports and health teacher), VMSNz 8Bachelor’sRequired
Health, physical activity and security (sports, health and national defense teacher), VASN 7Bachelor’sRequired
Health, physical activity and security (sports, health and national defense teacher), VAS 7Bachelor’sRequired
Health, physical activity and security (sports, health and national defense teacher), VASNz 8Bachelor’sRequired
Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Health, physical activity and security (sports and health teacher), VMS 8Bachelor’sRequired
Health, physical activity and security (sports and health teacher), VMSN 8Bachelor’sRequired
Health, physical activity and security (sports and health teacher), VMSNz 7Bachelor’sRequired
Health, physical activity and security (sports, health and national defense teacher), VASN 8Bachelor’sRequired
Health, physical activity and security (sports, health and national defense teacher), VAS 8Bachelor’sRequired
Health, physical activity and security (sports, health and national defense teacher), VASNz 7Bachelor’sRequired