School Policy: Implications and Recommendations

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TSS
School Policy
Report
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3/20/2019

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................1
Cultural analysis:.............................................................................................................................2
Policy analysis:................................................................................................................................3
Implications and Recommendations:...............................................................................................6
Relevant Legislation or Authority............................................................................................6
Related Department Policies....................................................................................................7
Other Documents......................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction:
Toowong State School (TSS) is state level school. It is having more than 500 students.
TSS situated in the Toowong, City of Brisbane, Queensland. The Majority of the staff members
have good quality of teaching and they have good experience more than fifteen years in the field.
It is necessary to school as well as students education point of view. NB Headland established
TSS in 1880. Brendon Madden is principal of TSS. The Principal is responsible to implement the
policy in the school for better learning and understanding. They have a great mission for their
school in which they want holistic development of each student through providing balance
educational services. They place an emphasis on the different values, such as honesty, fairness,
loyalty, self-respect, leadership, sportsmanship, good manners, courtesy, respect, tolerance, and
understanding.
TSS school community has identified some rules for responsible behaviour, which are as:
1. Be safe
2. Be kind
3. Be responsible
4. Be a learner
5. Be respectful.
TSS is providing various services to their students, such as early intervention program,
speech pathologist, and specialist staff for learning and behavioral support. Responsible
Behavior Plan for Students (RBPS) is necessary to followed by every Queensland state schools.
All the state schools are following the designed framework of Department of Education and
Training (DET). According to DET, it provides commitment towards ensuring that every student
is having well learning from every lesson, achieving with in a disciplined learning environment
as well as safe, and supportive. TSS is required to review their policy in 2019. All the things are
well maintain by the TSS. Still it is required to review RBPS in 2019. It is necessary to
implement the facilities to create safe and supportive environment in the school (det.wa.edu.au,
2016).

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The principal is responsible to maintain behavior of the students and teachers. Therefore,
it is necessary to implement and revised the policy as per requirement to develop better behavior
support for learning of students. State government and DET are continuously reviewing all the
policies as per changes in societies and communities as well as technological changes in
upcoming time. However, implementation is depending on the board of the schools and the
principals with the support of staff members (det.wa.edu.au, 2016).
Cultural analysis:
State school should have a proper explaining, framing and forming in their study
methods, which is directly affecting student’s behavior. Policy forming is a huge task and
implementation is having different challenges (Adams, 2016, pp. 290, 307). Every policy is
having a specific purpose. Therefore, it is necessary to follow those policies for betterment of
student’s future. Every policy is having actor and subjects. It is clear to all the state level schools
that they are under some policy of government as well as national level policies (Ashwin, Deem,
& McAlpine, 2016, pp. 2184, 2197).
A Policy is a collection of some sets of rules for completing a task in a better way. It
provides proper resources to complete the process with better results. Policy is containing
principles to getting desired outcomes from a process. School is having a process, where
everyone is learning from different things, such as classroom, labs, and many others. The
principal and teaching staffs are main actor who originate and represent particular policy, which
directly affects students (Ball, What is policy? Texts, trajectories and toolboxes, 1993, pp. 10,
17). Schools are following all the policies, as the state government maintains a monitoring
process. State schools are having all the policies but they are not working properly. Therefore, it
is necessary to review them to maintain proper outcome. (Ball, Maguire, Braun, & Hoskins,
2011, pp. 625, 639).
School should have better leaders to monitor all the activities of the school as well as
motivate all the actors of the school, such as teachers. Effectiveness is necessary in the state
schools, as they are having students and they learn from everything from environment.
Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a better culture in the school by all the leaders and actors. It
will provide a better outcome (Bolman & Deal, 1991, pp. 509, 534).