Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER)

How can the Health Promoting Schools framework support your work in vaping education?

In this episode, Dr Melisa Chong, a lecturer in HPE at University of Southern Queensland speaks with Tameaka Lakey and Alexandra Bell, health promotion officers at Ballarat Community Health discuss about nicotine based products that young people are using and how teachers can teach the ‘alcohol and other drugs’ focus area to support their health enhancing decision making. 

What are the benefits and challenges young people face in relationships?

Dr Melisa Chong, a lecturer in HPE at University of Southern Queensland speaks with Tameaka Lakey and Alexandra Bell, health promotion officers at Ballarat Community Health.

In this episode we discuss the habits of young people in relationships and the support teachers can receive in teaching the relationships and sexuality’ focus area in the HPE curriculum. 

What is the relationship between AI and youth mental health? How can teachers support young people in the use of AI for their mental health?

Dr Melisa Chong, a lecturer in HPE at University of Southern Queensland speaks with Associate Professor Roisin McNaney, cross disciplinary digital health researcher and director of the CSIRO Next Generation of Graduates program in AI in Mental Health.

In this episode, you will understand how young people use AI and some of the benefits and challenges they may face using AI for their mental health. 

What is a health promoting school? – Part 2

Dr Hugh Shannon, a Senior Lecturer in HPE at Queensland University of Technology speaks with authors Sue Dimitrijevich (Health education consultant & former school principal) and Amanda Ferguson (Project development officer – Nutritionist, Foodcore Nutrition Services) about tips and insights from the latest edition of the book ‘What is a health promoting school? Increasing health literacy in WA schools’.

Part 2 continues the theme of application and how a health promoting school (HPS) can be fostered. Discussion includes HPS action planning, guest speaker considerations and the value of trained health education teachers as a school community resource. This podcast concludes with the importance of sharing practices and what can be gained from exploring case studies which document context, activities, outcomes, highlights, challenges, lessons learnt, tips for success and sustainability.

For further information and access to a free PDF copy of the book visit:

https://wahpsa.org.au/healthpromotingschools/what-is-a-health-promoting-school/

What is a health promoting school? – Part 1

Dr Hugh Shannon, a Senior Lecturer in HPE at Queensland University of Technology speaks with authors Sue Dimitrijevich (Health education consultant & former school principal) and Amanda Ferguson (Project development officer – Nutritionist, Foodcore Nutrition Services) about tips and insights from the latest edition of the book ‘What is a health promoting school? Increasing health literacy in WA schools’.

Part 1 includes discussion of what constitutes a health promoting school (HPS), the importance of making schools healthier places to live, learn and work, the HPS framework, health literacy skills, modelling positive health behaviours, and a call-to-action encouraging stakeholder engagement and co-design.

For further information and access to a free PDF copy of the book visit:

https://wahpsa.org.au/healthpromotingschools/what-is-a-health-promoting-school/

Sally Blane, SunSmart Manager at Cancer Council WA and Megan Sauzier, Chief Executive Officer at Foodcore Nutrition Services (formerly, WA School Canteen Association) chat about tips for teachers about sun safety and nutrition.

In addition to the importance of teachers being good role models, you will hear about small changes that can have a big impact. Focusing on the three components of the HPS framework, schools can implement strategies to have better health outcomes for children and young people, such as ditching jelly snakes from school sports carnivals.  

For more information, tools and resources visit:

www.generationsunsmart.com.au

www.waschoolcanteens.org.au

www.fueltogo.com.au  

www.wahpsa.org.au 

Dr Joe Scott, a Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education in the School of Education and Tertiary Access at the University of the Sunshine Coast speaks with Associate Professor Brendan Moy from the Queensland University of Technology. 

As a former HPE teacher and an experienced university teacher educator, Brendan shares his valuable insights on how HPE teachers can tweak the design and delivery of their current learning experiences to enhance the transfer of student’s skills from practice to the performance environment as well as enhance students’ motivation. His simple message to HPE teachers is to try to incorporate some of the learning design principles of the constraints-led approach (CLA) into their teaching practice.

The CLA is alternative teaching approach underpinned by contemporary motor learning theory. There is extensive research evidence to demonstrate that adopting the CLA in practice effectively meets the skill acquisition and psychological needs of the individual.

In this podcast, A/Prof Sue Whatman talks with Professor John Quay and Abbey Boyer from the University of Melbourne about a holistic pedagogical framework called Creative PE. This framework draws on aspects of various pedagogical models in PE, including foundational movement skills, teaching games for understanding, sport education, and taking personal and social responsibility, to offer a way to plan and teach units that supports meaningful engagement with PE.

Professor John Quay has taught and researched at the University of Melbourne for twenty years, in HPE, outdoor education and educational philosophy. John initially developed Creative PE with Jacqui Peters, who is now a Lecturer at Deakin University. With colleagues he has taught many cohorts of pre-service teachers using this understanding of HPE.

https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/6019-john-quay

Abbey Boyer is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this Abbey spent over 20 years teaching HPE in primary and secondary school settings. She has run Creative PE in primary, secondary and tertiary settings with great success and teaches this and other aspects of HPE in the Master of Teaching.

https://education.unimelb.edu.au/about/academic-staff/abbey-boyer

Joel Richardson is Head of Health and Physical Education at St Edmunds College, Canberra, a Year 4-12 all-boys school. St Edmunds is a Catholic School in the Tradition of Edmund Rice, it educates young men spiritually, academically, socially, physically and creatively in a compassionate Catholic context.

Joel discusses how he skilfully builds relationships with his students and emphasises that relationships between students, teachers and parents means ‘everything’ at the school. Relationship building is considered a continual process from when boys enrol to when they leave. 

Joel has some incredible techniques including advising teachers to ‘flip’ the conversation, by asking a question rather than ‘telling’ students what to do and to challenge students to be the best they can be.

A must listen.

Associate Professor of Health and Physical Education at University of Canberra John Williams speaks with senior dietician and Executive Officer Leanne Ellison from ACT Nutrition about healthier food options in our school canteens.

How do we align food options with basic nutritional requirements to support overall healthy school environments, as well as professional development for teachers around nutrition.

Setting up positive food experiences and exposure for children as early as possible.