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Secondary Schooling Operations and Practices

Assignment 1: Legislation, Schools and Professional Practice

Dr Terry McClafferty
Charles Darwin University
Darwin, NT, Australia
1 Education Acts, Departmental Strategies, School strategies/outcomes
The purpose of the first task is to identify the objects or purpose of the Education Act and
provide evidence how a school complies. One may choose the relevant act for the state
where one resides or intends to teach, however the SA and the NT Acts provide an “ease of
use” for this assignment. If one struggles with their local act I would recommend to use the
NT Act, the NT Dept of Educ and an NT school’s documents.
The advice is to prepare a table and “map” the objects across from agency (Dept. of
Education) to the schools. Try to pack your table with relevant information and learn the
skill of “truncating”, using shortened abbreviations and a compact font (Arial narrow 10pt).
Provide a short discussion/description of 200 words of the table and be aware that the
“table speaks for itself” and will clearly indicate the relationship from Parliament to the
school.
Begin: Assemble the important documents from the Act to school and identify their
objectives/outcomes and map on table (see next slide). Do NOT worry too much about the
word length….treat it as an indicator!
Table 1: Education Act’s objectives mapped to department (agency) and school
Note: use a smaller font than presented below….

Education Act Dept Educ Dept Educ Dept Educ School School Annual
Framework
(NT Act) Strategic Annual Report Strategic Report
(Operational)
Education Programs
Appropriate &
responsive

Effective transition VET in schools


from school to
work results

Safe and
supportive

Involve parents &


School Council
community

Non government
Not Applicable
schools
The following tasks of 2, 3, and 4 are self explanatory and require
an overview of the act or legislation. However it is important to
realise that all legislation impacts the daily operation of schools,
is mandatory and all must comply.

Your response should be about 250 words per page.

Take note of the instruction: Please present your complete


assignment in a “report” format. The assignment is NOT an essay
– it is a report. Please do submit as a PDF…and follow instructions
on the assignment task sheet for labelling your PDF file.

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