The term Physical
Education raises mixed reactions when used to a class
of students such as teacher trainees living at Cyril Potter
College of Education. Their responses to what physical
education is centre around the subject being a physical
encounter.
Physical Education has come a long way since the age of
primitive man, through the Greeks and Romans, through
Mechieval times to the present. In the early times, it
was just concerned with training of the body, developing
fitness and health for survival, war, athletics and beauty.
But it was Edward Hitchcock who set up a college of physical
education at Ainherst in 1861, changing from physical
training to physical education, using some of the concepts
and principles of the subjects such as education, psychology,
sociology in the teaching of the subject. Physical Education
ceased to be of the education of physical.
It now became education through the physical, alluding
then to the academic content involved.
With this orientation in mind, Physical Education at the
college is not just for exercise and health, but for helping
trainees to see the relevance of the subject for reinforcing
concepts in subjects across the schools’ curriculum.
The experience is to help them to use law organised games
and challenge activities in teaching. The pupils will
have fun while they will be intellectually stimulated.
Students will do a general programme which will equip
them with basic skills to address fundamental skills and
activities in Physical Education. Nursery, Primary and
Secondary student teachers will be exposed to these experiences.
Though Physical Education is a must for the Nursery and
Primary student teachers since they will have to teach
it is general classroom practice, the secondary student
teachers will also benefit. It has been observed that
secondary trained teachers are asked to assist in their
schools’ programme of Physical Education as teachers
of the subject.
Courses such as Track and Field for school, Principles
of exercise and fitness, sports officiating and organising,
Music and Movement, Benefits of Physical Education and
Practicum’s will be addressed. As a major, in depth
aspects of sports officiating and Organising, Benefits
of Physical Education and Practicum’s will be done.
Human Anatomy, Physiology and kinesiology as minor, Benefits
of Physical Education, Music, Movement, and swimming.
Physical
Education Core Courses
EPE 101 TRACK AND FIELD FOR
SCHOOLS
30 hrs 2 credits
Year 1 Semester 1
EPE 102 PRINCIPLES OF EXERCISE AND FITNESS
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
EPE 104 SPORTS OFFICIATING AND ORGANISING
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
EPE 201 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
EPE 202 PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR SCHOOLS
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
EPE 251 BENEFITS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
EPE 351 HUMAN ANATOMY & KINESIOLOGY
AND PHYSIOLOGY
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
Course
Descriptions
EPE 101 TRACK AND FIELD FOR
SCHOOLS
30 hrs 2 credits
Year 1 Semester 1
RATIONALE
For teachers to have the requisite knowledge to be able
to help prepare children for participation in Schools’
Athletic Championships. Athletics is one of the few areas
of sport for which championships are consistently held
on an annual bass with the backing of the Guyana Teachers’
Union and the Ministry of Education.
AIMS/GENERAL
OBJECTIVES
• To recognize and define the role if track and
field organizations.
• To Provide the requisite knowledge to enable trainee
teachers to impart skills in track and field.
• To prepare the trainee teacher to plan and organize
competitive activities in the schools.
PRE-REQUISITES:
Student teachers should have had track and field experiences
while at primary and secondary schools.
EPE 102 PRINCIPLES OF EXERCISE
AND FITNESS
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
RATIONALE
Most trainee teachers entering college have not had the
benefit of regular systematic and formal teaching in physical
education and therefore posses many misconceptions about
exercise and fitness, this unit seeks to correct that.
AIMS
/GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
• To develop an understanding in the trainee teacher
basic principles of exercise and fitness.
EPE
104 SPORTS OFFICIATING AND ORGANISING
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
RATIONALE
Inter-House Track and Field and other competitions have
become an integral part of the education system. This
course provides the opportunity for students to learn
the integral part of the education system. This provides
the opportunity for students to learn the basics of officiating
and organizing competitions
AIMS/GENERAL
OBJECTIVE:
The trainee teachers must be able to:
• plan various sports days and tournament.
• referee/umpire games that are done in schools
• layout the court or playing areas for games done.
EPE 201 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT
45
hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
RATIONALE
The music and movement ‘world’ of the teacher
trainee is extremely limited; particularly to contemporary
forms prevailing. There is need to enrich and vary the
music and movement environment.
AIMS/GENERAL
OBJECTIVE:
• To develop aesthetic awareness and appreciation
• To develop rhythmic movements and coordination.
EPE 202 PHYSICAL EDUCATION
FOR SCHOOLS
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
RATIONALE
If the children are required to participate in any game
or sport, they must know the ‘basics’ of all
the skills required. Teachers must therefore expose children
to all of these skills so that they may progress to higher
levels of skills
AIMS/GENERAL
OBJECTIVE:
• Trainee teachers must what behaviours are expected
from the children they will be teaching.
• Trainee teachers must know what is a skill and
what is needed by children in the nursery, primary and
secondary grades.
• Trainee teachers must know progressions for the
teaching of each skill.
• Trainee teachers should know the safety factors
to be considered for the teaching of each skill.
EPE
251 BENEFITS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
RATIONALE
Lifestyle diseases eg. hypertension, heart disease and
diabetes are named as the leading causes of death in Guyana.
Ignorance, even among teachers, of the role of exercise
and diet in weight-control and, therefore, in the reduction
in the incidence of these diseases is a major contributory
factor.
AIMS/GENERAL
OBJECTIVE:
This course seeks to provide the requisite knowledge and
skills that may result in a positive change of attitude.
EPE
351 HUMAN ANATOMY & KINESIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
RATIONALE
Many teachers have a simplistic understanding, including,
including many misconceptions about the structure and
functioning of the human body. Some teachers have not
had the benefits of a course in bio mechanics and would
therefore require one of this nature to develop a deeper
understanding of neuromuscular skeletal system as well
as an understanding of abnormalities which will foster
an accurate and deeper understanding about the body systems.
AIMS/GENERAL
OBJECTIVE:
• Trainee teachers must be able to name the bones,
muscle and joints of the body and say where each can be
located.
• Trainee teachers must be able to relate the names
of the muscles and to say what is the function of each
body system.
• Trainee teachers should be able to apply some
principles of physics to the human body.
• Trainee teachers should be able to know and develop
a full understanding of biochemical terms and to relate
muscles to their respective function (s)
Practicum Courses
PRACTICUM I
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
PRACTICUM 4 (b)
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
SECONDARY PRACTICUM 4 (b)
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
SECONDARY
PRACTICUM 6
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
SECONDARY PRACTICUM 7
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
PRACTICUM
I
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
RATIONALE
Students
generally approach the teaching
of Physical Education in the same way as other subjects.
This poses much difficulty because of the more practical
nature of the subject.
AIMS/GENERAL
OBJECTIVE:
• To provide opportunities for the practical application
of the knowledge and skills acquired during the physical
education programme.
PRACTICUM
4 (a)
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
RATIONALE:
After teacher in training acquire teaching skills, opportunities
need to be provided for practicing and therefore reinforcing
these opportunities as well as provide mechanism for the
necessary feedback.
AIMS/GENERAL
OBJECTIVES:
• Pupils will know what is the integrated and multi
graded lesson plan.
• Pupils will appreciate the use of different strategies
for teaching .
• Trainee teachers will learn to develop a multi
graded lesson plan and the integrated lesson plan.
SECONDARY PRACTICUM
4 (b)
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
RATIONALE:
Teaching as become more scientific it is more than just
delivery. Students must be able to develop and use skills,
materials( appropriate or improvised technology) and evaluate
their usefulness.
AIMS/GENERAL
OBJECTIVES:
• That trainee teachers will be able to use evaluate
feedback to improve teaching.
• That trainee teachers will be able to use appropriate
technology.
SECONDARY
PRACTICUM 6
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
RATIONALE:
If a trainee teacher is to become a successful and effective
teacher he/she needs a know what a good lesson plan is
and how to use questioning techniques,
strategies and materials.
AIMS/GENERAL
OBJECTIVES:
To assess the extent to which trainee teacher should be
able to demonstrate:
• good lesson planning
• sound questioning skills
• the ability to select appropriate strategies and
materials.
SECONDARY PRACTICUM 7
45 hrs 3 credits
Year 1 Semester 2
RATIONALE:
Student teachers need opportunity to use the skills they
have learnt and developed in teaching groups of varied
abilities and needs, hence, it is necessary to provide
such opportunity through schools.
AIMS/GENERAL
OBJECTIVES:
To provide opportunities for the reinforcement of skills
in teaching a wide ability range, including children with
special needs and low achieving males.
