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    Teachers possess valuable knowledge and experience that can inform effective policymaking, though they are typically excluded from the process. The document discusses how teachers can be involved in curriculum planning, school-based management that decentralizes decision-making, and internal evaluation, where teachers play a role assessing policies. However, special interest groups, politicians, and bureaucrats often minimize teachers' impact on education policies.

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    Teachers possess valuable knowledge and experience that can inform effective policymaking, though they are typically excluded from the process. The document discusses how teachers can be involved in curriculum planning, school-based management that decentralizes decision-making, and internal evaluation, where teachers play a role assessing policies. However, special interest groups, politicians, and bureaucrats often minimize teachers' impact on education policies.

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    THE TEACHER

    AND THE
    POLICY MAKER
    What is Policy?
    •  A definite course or method of action selected
    (by government, institution, group or individual)
    from among alternatives and in the light of given
    conditions to guide and, usually, to determine
    present and future decisions.

    • A specific decision or set of decisions designed to


    carry out such a course of action.
    • Such a specific decision or set of decisions
    together with the related actions designed
    to implement them. 

    • The statements and frameworks by


    Government to direct their agencies design
    and delivery of programs and services to
    the public.
    In education, policies are usually made by
    school board members and administrators, but
    teachers are rarely part of the process. For our
    purposes, let’s define policy as “a definite
    method of action selected from among
    alternatives to guide present and future
    decisions.”
    THE TEACHER

    Teachers are typically not policymakers, but they possess the knowledge and
    information from which effective policies are created.
    Curriculum Planning and
    Implementation
    • Teachers are an integral part of the decision-making
    process in curriculum planning and implementation at
    the classroom level. Unfortunately, the impact of
    teachers on the curriculum at the K-12 level is
    minimized by the involvement of special interest
    groups, politicians, and bureaucrats.
    School-based Management
    In school-based management, the decision-making process is
    decentralized to involve school constituencies such as administrators,
    teachers, parents, community members, and students

    • a higher level of meaningful involvement by teachers and teacher


    teams in the decision-making process

    • opportunities for professional development in decision-making


    skills
    • a proactive approach to
    information sharing among school
    constituents

    • freedom and empowerment for teachers to


    implement innovative teaching reform ideas
    ADMINISTRATOR
    S
    STUDENTS
    Community
    PARENTS
    Internal Evaluation
    • Internal evaluation is a team-based approach in
    which teachers can play an important part in
    policy decisions. A “somewhat specialized form
    of action research”
    GOVERNMENT
    CONCLUSION

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