Legislation, Schools, and Professional and Ethical Behaviour Value Tasks 2022

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SOCIOLOGY: Legislation, Schools, and Professional and Ethical Behaviour
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Task 1: Education Acts and Departmental Strategic Plans
The Education Act and the education department’s strategic
The future direction of the education department over the upcoming five years has been set
by the Department of Education’s Strategic Framework for the year 2018-2022. The
Education Northern Territory Strategy 2018-2022 has been acting as the centre piece of
framework. This initiates a commitment towards a strong public education system that
provides each child with the prospect to engage, develop as well as accomplish. According to
Devlin, Disbray & Devlin (2017), the Department of Education has been providing
educational facilities to almost 33,000 school aged individuals all over the Northern
Territory. There are almost 151 government schools in the Northern Territory. The non-
government schools as well as child care services are regulated as well as supported by the
Department of Education. It has been critically analysed that the education department has
been prepared to deal with challenges by carrying out service delivery through innovative
programs. They are also known to provide admission to high class online learning services
delivered through the Northern Territory Open Education Centre (Schwab, 2018). There are
almost 3500 dedicated teachers working to deliver the education program in the Northern
Territory.
The guiding principles of strategic plan
The strategic plan of the department has been established on the following principles:
1. The social as well as economic development for the Territory is to be driven by education
2. Resourcing results are derived from effectual as well as evidence based trainings
3. The contemporary as well as service delivery methods are developed effectively through
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4. The system-wide effort has balanced autonomy in the long-run
The impact of the plan on Schools
The education department has been highly committed towards collaborating with families in
order to support the early development of children. The aim has been to provide the children
with the improved start in life so they initiate school ready to learn. It has been critically
analysed that year’s education helps to improve learning outcomes in the initial schools of
learning. The wellbeing of a child is also taken care by their family members. The aim is to
work jointly with families as well as agencies in order to deliver services such as health, This
in turn will help to provide integrated services for children as well as their families, before
they start going to school. They also aim to deliver superiority early childhood education as
well as care services. This in turn will improve child security and overall school readiness.
According to Gerritsen (2016), increased expectations as well as learning environment in
every schools are likely to make it easier for students to thrive. The schools are committed
towards generating opportunities in order to make every student a successful learner. The
strategic plan is to provide the students with incorporated curriculum that will help them to
meet their accomplishment requirements. The schools also use up-to-date approaches as well
as current teaching reserves facilitated by technology in order to support service and program
delivery. A substantial consideration of this objective deals with working with families as
well as other agencies in order to recognize as well as provide support to the students.
The schools are also provided with quality leadership individuals possessing high
professional practice at all levels. This in turn will act as the base to initiate a high performing
as well as outstanding education system. The capability of educators as well as school leaders
is reinforced thus providing high-quality lessons to the students. The target has been to
provide education to those students belonging to remote areas in the Northern Territory. The
plan has been to provide a culture involving exemplary based practice that will develop

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indigenous teachers. A variety of strategies at the scheme, regional and school level have
been recognized to make certain that there are quality leaders as well as educators to make
the most of the learning results of students.
The strategies that have been analysed are as follows:
1. The capability of educational leadership is developed thus initiating continuous
development in the schools to maximise student results
2. The support for students has been reinforced to initiate transition between the stages that
exists between schooling as well as learning
3. Retaining as well as employing high quality teachers liable for providing healthy working
surroundings
4. Using available data effectively in order to monitor performance to initiate improvement
5. To deliver quality advice as well as services that has been agile to the increasing
requirements related to schools
The strategy related to educational development is to develop quality services that will align
with systems focusing on providing support to school operations. The delivery of education
services are underpinned with evidence based approaches. The development of innovative as
well as elastic ways to convey quality services, advice and support frontline service delivery
within the resources obtainable is indispensable for the organisation. There are a range of
approaches that has been recognized to support the effectual operations all over the
department. The partnership that will take place between regional, international as well as
local level will initiate a positive difference in the lives of the students along with the society.
The students are provided with support to accomplish enduring employment outcomes. This
will in turn contribute towards creating a stronger society in the Northern Territory. The aim