Legislation, Schools, and Professional and Ethical Behaviour

Legislation, Schools,
and Professional and
Ethical Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 ..........................................................................................................................................3
Education Acts and Departmental Strategic Plans......................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
Teachers registration Acts and Regulations................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
Criminal Code of state and Territories........................................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
Relevant legislations for the operations of school canteen.......................................................10
Impact of the three incidents where the non compliance of the law at canteen have occurred
...................................................................................................................................................10
Suggestions of the strategic initiatives taken in the above three incidents to avoid its co-
occurrence. ...............................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Every profession have an ethical code which they are suppose to follow. Similarly, there
are ethical and behavioural codes for teachers teaching in schools and others. It is expected form
the teachers that they have strong character traits like: honesty, fairness, patience, lawfulness,
etc. There are many duties and responsibilities of which teachers are obliged to when dealing
with the students and practising their professions (Thielking, Skues and Le, 2018). Teachers are
supposed to behave ethically and professionally, they must always be king, respectful to their
students. They shall not show any kind of favouritism or partiality. This report is based upon the
Education act of Northern territory, Australia and the strategic planning of the department of
education which are to be implemented by the schools in Australia. This report also explain the
compliance of the legal rules and regulations by the schools in Australia to achieve the
objectives.
TASK 1
Education Acts and Departmental Strategic Plans
The Northern territory of Australia education act, 2015 came into force on 20th
November in the year 2020. This act provides access to all the children of the northern territory
to education according to their abilities and needs.
Objectives:
The main objects of The Northern territory of Australia education act, 2015 are stated in
section.3 , which are as follows:
 To provide children and the young people with education that is appropriate fro them.
 To ensure that the programs of education are made in accordance to fulfilling the needs
of the children and young people (Curchin, 2019) (Briggs and Hawkins, 2020).
 To facilitate such an effective education program to the children and young people that
they have effective transition to employment or for the further education.
 To facilitate that the school operations have safe learning environment and also that they
are supportive.
 The act also provides with the involvement of both parents and communities in the
government schools by their governance.
 To look that the schools are registered and the non government schools are also assessed.

Guiding Principles:
There are 7 Guiding Principles which involves every person who is included in the
administration of the education. All these are stated in the act under Section.4. They are as
follows:
 Every student shall receive proper and quality education which can help them in reaching
their potential so that this can maximise their achievements and make contribution to
community.
 Education helps in providing foundation for the advancement of social and economy of
the territory (Gryglewicz, Childs and Soderstrom, 2018).
 The staff of the schools and students are all entitled to environment that is safe.
 Parents are the most important as they have vital role in their children's education.
 All the best outcomes of the education of any student are all achieved by the parents,
community, schools and the non governmental organisation with which they are working
with.
 The environment of learning should be appropriate culturally and reflect territory's
diversity.
 There are three things that plays very important role in students engagement with
education and also with the outcomes of achievement. They are: social context, family
context and also general well-being.
The NT Department of Education Plan (2018-2020)
This is the new strategy planned by the Department of education for the year 2018- 2022
which is to be complied by all the educational institutes in the Northern Territory of Australia.
The main goal of this is the engage children and students to grow and to achieve.
The framework of 2018- 2022 is the strategic plan which is framed by the department of
education to provide with the future direction to educational institutes for the five years (Epstein
and Crisp, 2018). This commits very strongly with the education system by providing
engagement opportunities to every child so that they grow and achieve success in future. This
strategy have 5 main areas of focus. They are as follows: School Leadership: In this the school will have a vision where they are expected to raise
their performance standards and be such a school that have an improvement agenda.