Year 11 Vocational Major Personal Development
(Units 1 & 2)

COURSE OUTLINE

UNIT 1: Healthy Individuals 

This unit focuses on the development of personal identity and individual pathways to optimal health and wellbeing. It begins with concepts of personal identity and the range of factors that contribute to an individual’s perception of self and individual health and wellbeing. Students will use these findings to enhance an understanding of community cohesion, community engagement and how sense of identity may affect outcomes in different contexts. Students will investigate the elements of emotional intelligence and begin to develop an awareness of interrelationships between communities and the health and wellbeing of individuals. 

Unit 2: Connecting with the community 

This unit focuses on the benefits of community participation and how people can work together effectively to achieve a shared goal. It begins with definitions of community and different types of communities at a local, national and global level. Students will look at the relationships between active citizenship, empathy and connection to culture, and individual health and wellbeing. They will investigate the barriers and enablers to problem solving within the community. 

Area of Studies - Unit 1

1. Personal Identity and Emotional Intelligence

2. Community health and wellbeing

3. Promoting a healthy life

Area of Studies - Unit 2

1. What is Community?

2. Community Cohesion 

3. Engaging and Supporting Community

ASSESSMENT TASKS

Assessment can include a range of the following activities (or equivalent tasks) where students should apply and demonstrate

learning:

• a performance

• a record and reflection of presentations by guest speaker/s

• a record of discussion or debate

• a video, podcast or oral presentation

• a response to structured questions

• a record of interviews with members of the community and class

• a digital presentation

• a visual presentation, such as a graphic organiser, concept/mind map or annotated poster