PLF4M COURSE OUTLINE

Course Title: Recreation Healthy Active Living Leadership

Grade: Open

Ministry Course Code: PLF4M

Course Type: Open

Credit Value: 1.00

Course Hours: 110

Department: Health and Physical Education

Revision Date: N/A

Policy Document: Health and Physical Education, The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12, 2007

Domestic Student Price: $550
International Student Price: $799

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course enables students to explore the benefits of lifelong participation in active recreation and healthy leisure and to develop the leadership and coordinating skills needed to plan, organize, and safely implement recreational events and other activities related to healthy, active living. Students will also learn how to promote the benefits of healthy, active living to others through mentoring and assisting them in making informed decisions that enhance their well-being. The course will prepare students for university programs in physical education and health and kinesiology and for college and university programs in recreation and leisure management, fitness and health promotion, and fitness leadership. Students will also attend a 2-night, 3-day trip to a leadership camp/program for extensive leadership training. (*Cost associated for trip and fundraising opportunities available)

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS

A. LEADERSHIP

A1. demonstrate an understanding of the concept of leadership and of the attributes, skills, and styles needed to be an effective leader;

A2. demonstrate leadership skills in a variety of contexts related to healthy, active living;

A3. demonstrate an understanding of group dynamics, and apply teamwork skills in a variety of contexts related to healthy, active living.

B. FACILITATION OF RECREATION AND LEISURE

B1. identify and explain the benefits of lifelong participation in active recreation and healthy leisure, and demonstrate an understanding of factors that enable and constrain participation in active recreation and healthy leisure activities;

B2. demonstrate the ability to plan and coordinate an event related to healthy, active living;

B3. demonstrate an understanding of safety procedures needed for injury prevention in a variety of activities related to healthy, active living.

C. MENTORING DEVELOPMENT

C1. demonstrate an understanding of mentorship and the methods used by effective mentors to contribute to the growth and development of others;

C2. demonstrate the ability to help others develop and implement a personal healthy active living plan

OUTLINE OF COURSE CONTENT

TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES

A variety of teaching and learning strategies are used to allow students many opportunities to attain the necessary skills for success in this course and in future studies. In all activities, consideration will be taken to ensure that individual students’ multiple intelligences and learning strengths are addressed through the use of varied and multiple activities in each lesson.

STRATEGIES FOR ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE

The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning. Assessment and evaluation is based on the Ministry of Education’s Growing Success policy document, which articulates the Ministry’s vision for how assessment and evaluation is practiced in Ontario schools.

Growing Success describes the three assessment types as follows:

Assessment as Learning: focuses on the explicit fostering of students’ capacity over time to be their own best assessors, but teachers need to start by presenting and modelling external, structured opportunities for students to assess themselves.
Assessment for Learning: the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go, and how best to get there.
Assessment of Learning: the assessment that becomes public and results in statements or symbols about how well students are learning.

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

EVALUATION SCHEME

A final grade (percentage mark) is calculated at the end of the course and reflects the quality of the student’s achievement of the overall expectations of the course, in accordance with the provincial curriculum.

The final grade will be determined as follows:

Seventy percent (70%) of the grade will be based on evaluation conducted throughout the course. This portion of the grade should reflect the student’s most consistent level of achievement throughout the course, although special consideration should be given to more recent evidence of achievement.
Thirty percent (30%) of the grade will be based on a final evaluation administered at or towards the end of the course. This evaluation will be based on evidence from one or a combination of the following: an examination, a performance, an essay, and/or another method of evaluation suitable to the course content. The final evaluation allows the student an opportunity to demonstrate comprehensive achievement of the overall expectations for the course.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is a serious offense. It is defined as taking words, phrasing, sentence structure, or any other element of the expression of another person’s ideas, and using them as if they were your own. Plagiarism is a violation of another person’s rights, whether the material taken is great or small.Students will be assisted in developing strategies and techniques to avoid plagiarism. They need to be aware that plagiarized term work will be penalized and could result in a mark of zero.