You love motivating and helping young people learn. You're passionate about good health and exercise. You want a degree that's hands-on and gets you out into schools during every year of your degree. 

You want a career that can take you anywhere. At FedUni, we'll teach you how to teach and you'll spend about one quarter of your course getting your heart-rate up, learning and practicing the skills you'll soon be teaching.

Along with graduating ready to teach health and PE in a secondary school, you'll also specialise in another teaching method from english, history, maths, psychology, science and outdoor education. Then, when you're looking for work, you'll have double the skills to offer.

Once you finish your degree, you can register with the Victorian Institute of Teaching. You may follow many of our graduates who teach overseas and around Australia in remote communities, regional centres and capital cities.

This qualification has a strong orientation towards developing vocationally relevant knowledge and skills, through learning opportunities that blend theoretical knowledge with practice. You will experience ongoing opportunity to put your university studies into numerous and varied 'real life' practice situations, preparing you for a diverse range of teaching contexts now and into the future.

Areas of study include: exercise physiology, biomechanics, motor development and learning, fundamentals and foundations of health and physical education; health and human development, nutrition, physical activity, creative movement, applied sports science, contemporary curricumlum design, pedagogy and assessment for teaching and learning in health and physical education. 

Industry Experience

Minimum of 80 days of teaching placement. These placements will mainly take place in secondary schools, but may include other educational settings.

Professional recognition

• Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT)
• Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER)

Upon completion graduates will be eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) and may be eligible to apply for professional accreditation throughout Australia and overseas, although requirements for registering organisations in other states, territories or countries may be different from the Victorian requirements.

Graduates and students are eligible for professional memberships with the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER). ACHPER offers members the opportunity to contribute to their profession through participation in face-to-face and online forums, seminars and conferences, and access additional professional learning opportunities and resources.

Career Outcomes

• Activities instructor
• Health and human development teacher
• Secondary school teacher
• Personal trainer
• Health education teacher
• Group fitness instructor
• Gym instructor
• Physical education teacher
• Health promotions officer
• Leading teacher
• Principal
• Government and non-government health
• Sport teacher
• Health teacher
• Health and PE teacher
• Outdoor Ed teacher
• Health Education
• Sport coaching
• Teacher
• Sports coach

In addition, you will be well prepared to successfully undertake many other occupations and will be highly sought after by professions requiring graduates with excellent communication and organisational abilities, critical thinking and problem solving skills, and a strong professional work ethic.