Educational Policy Assignment PDF

Running head: EDUCATIONAL POLICY
Educational Policy
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Executive Summary
The NSW ministry of education ensures effective functioning of the schools and educational
institutions. The policies that have been taken up by the ministry are aimed at catering to the
needs of the children. Moreover, it can be said that the department also employs strategies that
are effective to promote inclusive approach within the classroom environment. In this regard, it
can be said that the effective educational policies not only ensure harmonious environment for
the classrooms but also focus on the nutritional and developmental needs of the children. In the
context of Australian education, the importance of promoting aboriginal education is highly
important. The report hence will focus on the factors influencing the implementation of the NSW
policy. Moreover, a detailed analysis of the different elements of the policy has also been done.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Overview..........................................................................................................................................3
Equality:.......................................................................................................................................3
Administration of the School:......................................................................................................4
Learning Activities and Effective Curriculum:...........................................................................4
Ensuring Overall Wellbeing:.......................................................................................................4
Management and Facilities:.........................................................................................................4
Finance:........................................................................................................................................5
People:.........................................................................................................................................5
Factors Influencing Implementation................................................................................................5
Aboriginal Education...................................................................................................................6
Faculty Training Program............................................................................................................6
Effective Budget..........................................................................................................................7
Using New Technologies.............................................................................................................7
Co-curriculum Activities.............................................................................................................7
Critique of the Policy.......................................................................................................................7
Reflection.........................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Reference.......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
It has been monitored that in order to support the teaching learning procedure the schools
need to take up an implement certain policies. The educational policies help educational
institutions to implement strategies that can be helpful in this process. Moreover, it can be
understood that the educational policies also support the teaching and training programs. It can
be said that the primary aim of the educational institutions as well as the policies are to ensure
harmonious environment within the classroom. Moreover, it is to be mentioned that the
educational policies are adopted by the schools in order to promote safe teaching and learning
environment for both the students and the teachers. The present report hence will focus on the
NSW policy that advocates for the multicultural and aboriginal education.
Overview
The NSW educational policy is one of the most important educational framework that has
been successfully implemented by multiple schools in Australia. As the country is known to be
having diverse population, it can be understood that the schools need to adopt inclusive approach
(Benham & Heck, 2013). The children belonging to different cultural backgrounds and
languages are admitted to schools. Hence, the primary and most important approach that should
be adopted by the schools is multicultural approach. In this regard, it can be said that the NSW
framework can be considered as highly effective to support the process. The most important
aspects that has been proposed by the policies are to be discussed.
Equality:
The primary aspect of the NSW policy is to adopt the practices of equality and inclusion
amongst the children. The framework focuses on the importance of aboriginal education (Husén

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& Kogan, 2014). In the context of Australia it can be said that the cultural diversity amongst the
children can be a huge difficulty. In this regard the importance of the equality and access
framework can be understood.
Administration of the School:
The administration of a school plays an important role in ensuring the smooth and
effective learning process. In this regard is to be mentioned that the NSW framework focuses on
the importance of attendance of the students and maintaining a harmonious environment within
he school.
Learning Activities and Effective Curriculum:
It has to be mentioned that in order to maintain effective teaching and learning process,
he schools need to incorporate effective curriculum and teaching learning activities (Luke &
Hogan, 2013). Moreover, it is to be mentioned that the NSW program focuses on the process of
effective implementation of curriculum. The framework also focuses on taking up methods that
are effective in implementing the curriculum more effectively.
Ensuring Overall Wellbeing:
The NSW framework focuses on the overall wellbeing of the children. It is to be
mentioned that the NSW policy puts emphasis on the physical and mental wellbeing. The policy
mentions that the schools must be cautious enough to eliminate the chances of bullying
(McDonnell, 2013). Moreover, the framework also puts emphasis on the nutritional aspects of
the children.

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Management and Facilities:
The NSW framework provides detailed strategy of using the available and effective
facilities and resources. The framework mentions that the usage of advanced technologies and
the resources that are available in the organization (Walford, 2013). It has been mentioned that
the schools that are effectively taking up the NSW models, are able to utilize the resources and
new technologies for the betterment of the school as well as for the development of the children.
Finance:
The NSW framework puts emphasis on the usage of effective financial resources to
support the effective teaching learning process (Niemi, Toom & Kallioniemi, 2016). Moreover, it
can be said that the policy also puts emphasis on deciding budgets and efficiently using the class
fees, school contributions and other voluntary contributions.
People:
The NSW policy puts emphasis on the process of recruiting efficient employees.
According to the policy the schools need to focus on involving efficient teaching faculties as
well as secondary employees. The people who are recruited for the service should be willing to
and careful enough to take care of the needs of the children.
Factors Influencing Implementation
It has been monitored that in order to support the effective teaching learning procedures
as well as address the developmental needs of the children, it can be said that the educational

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policies take up important roles. The multiple educational policies that have been brought up by
the regulatory frameworks, focuses on supporting the educational and overall developmental
needs of the children (Jenson & Fraser, 2015). In the context of Australian educational systems,
it can be understood that effective strategies are to be taken up to ensure inclusive teaching and
learning process. In addition to this, it can be said that the educational policies need to focus on
the cultural and language diversities that are present in the country. Hence, the factors that play
influential role in implementing these educational policies are to be analyzed herewith.
Aboriginal Education
The primary reason behind taking up and implementing the NSW educational policy is to
support the process of aboriginal education. In the context of Australia it can be said that the
educational system should have strategies that ensure inclusive approach towards aboriginal
education (Lewis & Young, 2013). Moreover, it can be said that the NSW framework provides
effective strategies that can support the needs of language learning. As the country has a huge
population that do not speak English as their mother tongue, the NSW policy has effectively
employed strategies to support the educational needs of these students.
Faculty Training Program
The NSW program provides effective strategies to support training programs to the
teaching faculties. It has been monitored that in order to support the educational and
developmental needs of the students, the teachers need to be obtain proper training programs.
Moreover, it is understandable that in Australian schools, the teachers need to address children
coming from different cultural backgrounds (Fulcher, 2015). Hence, they should be provided
with trainings that enable them to understand different needs of these children.

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Effective Budget
The NSW policy provides strategies for implementing effective budget for the schools. A
proper and effective financial planning is highly required in order to support the teaching and
learning process.
Using New Technologies
The policy puts emphasis on the usage of modern technologies to support the teaching
learning process (Blackmore & Kenway, 2017). The framework mentions that the usage of
modern technologies can influence the learning process of the children.
Co-curriculum Activities
Along with providing strategies to support the educational needs of the children, the
NSW policy supports the needs of implementing co-curricular activities as well. The NSW
framework guides the schools in taking up various extracurricular activities (Komulainen et al.,
2014). The policy also points out the needs of these activities in order to ensure the overall
development of the children.
These are some of the important factors that influence the implementation of the NSW
policy.
Critique of the Policy
It can be monitored that the policies that has been taken up by the NSW department are
effective to bring quality changes in the educational frameworks of the schools. However, it can

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be monitored that the framework lacks in some aspects as well. Hence, a thorough analysis of the
educational policy is to be done.
 The primary aspect of accessing an educational policy is to monitor the democratic nature
of the policy. It is to be mentioned that the teachers, student and parents and the school
authorities are to be considered as some of the important stakeholders within an
educational framework. The adopted educational policy should provide ample scopes to
support the interest of these stakeholders (Tan & Chua, 2015). In the context of the NSW
educational policy that has been drawn in order to support the educational and
developmental needs of the children belonging to the diverse cultures, it can be said that
the policy has maintained democratic approach. The NSW policy provides ample scopes
of practicing democracy and ensuring the interests of the stakeholders.
 The educational policies also needs to ensure the organizational integrity. It can be
monitored that the NSW program that advocates aboriginal education, puts emphasis on
the administration of the schools and efficient usage of the resources that are available.
 In addition to this, the policy needs to be effective and realistic to support the process of
improving the educational as well as infrastructural needs of the schools (Liasidou et al.,
2014). The framework provided by NSW also focuses on the importance of taking up
strategies that can support the infrastructure. However, it can be said that the policy needs
to take up more effective strategies in order to support the infrastructural growth and
realistic approach.
 Another important aspect of accessing the effectiveness of the policy is to analyze the
process of implantation ad integration within the educational environment (Husén &

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Kogan, 2014). To elaborate it furthermore it can be said that the infrastructure and
teaching procedures that are to be taken up, are to be analyzed.
 In addition to this, the cost effectiveness as well as the benefits of implementing the NSW
framework are to be analyzed by using the effective assessment tools (Jones, Gray &
Harris, 2014). It can be understood that the educational policies that can be regarded as
effective and successful, will also have effective strategies to ensure the cost
effectiveness.
 Moreover, in order to understand the effectiveness of the effectiveness of the framework,
accessing its feasibility is also important. In order to ensure success of every educational
policy, accessing and analyzing its feasibility is highly important. Any educational
framework or policy should be effective and politically feasible (Simmie, 2014).
Moreover, it is to be mentioned that the policies and strategies that are taken up by the
schools should be politically feasible. In addition to this, the frameworks should cater to
the future growth of the children. The educational strategies should be effective enough
to support the career growth of the students (Fulcher, 2015). In this regard, it can be said
that the NSW policy that promotes multicultural and aboriginal education also points out
effective strategies to ensure career growth of these students.
Reflection
By analyzing the educational policy of NSW, it can be understood that the primary aim of
the framework is to support the education of the children belonging to diverse cultural
backgrounds. In this regard, it can be said that the policy advocates the process of taking up
inclusive approach. It has been monitored that by following and implementing NSW policy,
schools are able to take up effective strategies that help the children in their learning process.

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The framework also emphasizes the importance of employing effective budget and finance to
support the efficient teaching procedure. In addition to this, the policy also emphasizes the needs
of taking up developmental and training programs of the teachers. It rightly points out that in
order to support the diverse needs of the multicultural classroom, the teachers should be provided
with training programs. In addition to this, the NSW policy also ensures effective usage of new
technologies to support learning procedures. The policy also focuses on the co-curricular
activities that are helpful in meeting the developmental needs of the children. Moreover, the
policy also mentions that by taking up co-curricular activities are helpful for practicing inclusion.
However, it can be understood that the policy needs to focus more on the aspects of health and
overall wellbeing of the children. The management of these schools should be effective enough
to support the overall growth of the multicultural classroom. In addition to this, the NSW policy
of aboriginal and multicultural education also needs to monitor the health and safety factors of
these children. It is to be mentioned that the aboriginal children mostly belong to the
underprivileged section. Hence, it has been monitored that many a times these children lack the
basic nutritional needs. Hence, the framework should be effective enough address the nutritional
needs of the children. Along with that the schools should also take up strategies to ensure
eliminate incidents of school drop outs.
Conclusion
To conclude it can be said that the policy provided by the NSW department is being
widely adopted and practiced by multiple schools in Australia. The policy focuses on the
developmental needs of the children. Moreover, it also advocates the inclusive approach that are
necessary in order to support the diverse and multicultural classrooms. Hence, it can be said that

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the Australian schools that are taking up the policy, are working effectively towards aboriginal
education and development.

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