Schools must create a learning culture by developing staff competencies and providing training. They must also ensure safe and disciplined learning environments through policies that address physical safety, bullying, and medical emergencies. Additionally, schools should establish goals and plans to provide a quality education and accountability. Suspension and expulsion policies also need careful consideration, as these actions can negatively impact students' futures and discourage school attendance. Equality policies are further necessary to prevent discrimination and ensure all students can access education. Finally, strong stakeholder involvement, including teachers, aids in comprehensive policy development.
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Build A Learning Culture
Schools must create a learning culture by developing staff competencies and providing training. They must also ensure safe and disciplined learning environments through policies that address physical safety, bullying, and medical emergencies. Additionally, schools should establish goals and plans to provide a quality education and accountability. Suspension and expulsion policies also need careful consideration, as these actions can negatively impact students' futures and discourage school attendance. Equality policies are further necessary to prevent discrimination and ensure all students can access education. Finally, strong stakeholder involvement, including teachers, aids in comprehensive policy development.
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Build a Learning Culture
Academics being the major service of a school, it is mandatory to create a learning
culture by encouraging the staff to continuously add to their knowledge. This includes determining which capability each staff should acquire and creating a process for updating it throughout the year. For example, a policy to have a staff competency matrix and training need analysis for all staff must be completed before becoming eligible for the appraisal. Initially each staff learning should include a checklist of tasks, such as required training and development, work samples and formal learning instructions.
Safe Learning Environments
Students, teachers and staff members deserve to feel physically and psychologically secure in their environment. Policies influence how safe individuals are in school. In order to create this environment, guidelines need to be developed and reinstated that establish safety standards for the physical environment and mental state of students and staff. Disciplined rules have an effect on the safety of students and staff at school level, therefore, procedures should extend beyond the classroom, frequency of fire drills, anti-bullying, and how staff should respond during a medical emergency. Setting Goals and Establishing Productivity Students and teachers are the major customers of all the policies in a school. Management should establish standard rules to guide acceptable behaviour, and help create a conducive learning environment. All of these are necessary to help the institution run smoothly to ensure that students receive a quality education. In order for an institution to encourage higher learning, plans must be in place that establish goals as set forth by the school management. This is important for relating education to the community and making it responsible to the larger world. Accountability through the use of goal-oriented policies ensures productivity – thus save time, prevent confusion and unify the school. Suspension and Expulsion Although the law strictly disapproves it, the school should be very careful in determining when a student should be suspended or expelled, because it can impact a child's future. Although it is common to expel students for excessive violations of school rules, this is not always a good option for dealing with behaviour problems. When a child is expelled, he may lose his desire to continue attending traditional institution and quit. Suspension policies can inadvertently discourage students from attending school, leading to a lifetime of low-paying jobs or dependency of others. For this reason, it is important to have policies that incorporate other solutions before resorting to suspension and expulsion. Equality Equality in the schools is again determined by it’s policies. School must have guidelines requiring acts of discrimination to be reported to their administrators and to be remedied promptly. There are also rules in place to make sure that children with disabilities, or slow-learners, receive the same access to an education as other students. This ensures that everyone gets the opportunity to contribute to society and thrive economically. Teacher Engagement Another important thing is that policies on teacher training and engagement should focus more on the professional continuum of teachers. Teacher engagement is the key element for teacher retention, including teacher interventions, and their continuous professional development all over their career – they are a whole and they are interconnected. A proper workplace policy also aims to guide teaching and non-teaching staff in how to perform in the school for various prohibited issues in – harassment, internet use, health and safety, and social media are just a few. Stakeholder involvement Last but not the least, collaboration between all the stakeholders should be much larger. It is extremely important that everyone is involved in the policy-making, that each stakeholder has his/her role, and should be able to take that role into the process. Schools should have well-documented and comprehensive policies and standard- operating-procedures for all the internal and external stake holders.