5b Code of Practices within my Professional Communities
I work as Teacher Assistant in a primary school, run an
after school creativity club and I have also recently became a Governor of a
school within my community. In the environment in which I work I am surrounded
by policies and regulations. At times I have heard the ringing of ethics in my
ears throughout this course. Do I blog this? Can I blog that? What is allowed
to be in the public domain? Etc…
In addition I am developing a website and in the long term
and beyond this course hopefully develop a Social Enterprise, again ethics is
going to play its part and I will be able to build on the basis or even the
heart of this course. Furthermore having been a Shop Steward and Health Representative many years ago, (when I worked in retail) I have some understanding of
employment/workers acts etc… I also realise on reflection of professional networking
that a Union can be more than just providing some security/insurance to
employees, fighting for improved pay conditions; it is also a free legal
resource for schools, paid for by employees. I also have some understanding of copyright
having done a Graphic Design course. Furthermore my inquiry is about looking at nature
creativity; this will include creativity between schools, and ethics between schools.
E.G supporting each other etc… How do they support each other? What are the
rules? I think learning this in the long run will develop my skills if I was to
become co-ordinator of an area/subject etc… after becoming a teacher and while
I am a Governor.
In terms of codes of practice within my Professional
Communities and reflecting on past experience and some of ethics
information/resources I have looked at, the depth can be very deep. I also
considered my own principles and what I had learnt from the previous module,
understanding how important to get the balance of wellbeing right, the
foundation of any practice – ethos and what makes a professional practice grow –
the pattern of development and growth. How does a plant grow? How does a child
grow? What holds a building up? Who a keeps a professional practices running?
What makes Stainless Steel so Successful? What did Cadbury do for its staff
many years ago? What ethics can be learnt from this to develop a practice?
Understanding Fair-trade? From this to looking at other student’s blogs to see
there take on ethics and the area they decided to research, although we come from different
art forms and doing different inquiries, ethics can be very similar.
The following
policies vary depending on type of school – taken from the department of
Education Website on the 9th 11, 2013 relating to Governing Bodies
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/toolsandinitiatives/cuttingburdens/a00201669/statutory-policies-for-schools
A.
Statutory policies required by education legislation
Capability of staff
Charging
and remissions
School behaviour
Sex education
Special Educational Needs
Teachers’ pay (They have now
introduced performance related pay)
B.
Statutory policies required by other legislation, which impact particularly on
schools (including academies and free schools)
Data protection
Health
and safety – Risk assessments
C.
Other statutory documents
Admissions arrangements
Accessibility plan
Behaviour principles written
statement (Maintain schools, units etc..)
Written policy on behaviour
principles (Academies, I.S and F.S)
Central record of
recruitment and vetting checks
Complaints procedure
statement
Freedom of Information
Governors’ allowances
(schemes for paying)
Home-school agreement
document
Instrument of government
Minutes of, and papers considered at, meetings of
the governing body and its committees
Premises management documents
Equality information and objectives (public sector
equality duty) statement for publication
School information published on a website
Register of business interests of head teachers and
governors
Register of pupils’ attendance.
Staff discipline, conduct and grievance (procedures
for addressing)
D.
Documents referenced in statutory guidance
Child protection policy and procedures
Early
Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
Statement of procedures for dealing with allegations
of abuse against staff
In each
section above there is a further break down referencing different acts –
example of the Education Act 2011 Chapter 21 – Acts are often updating.
Below is summary for a Fire
Safety Risk Assessment taken from ‘HM Government Fire Assessment – Educational Premises?
I think you could summarise many of the polices above, into
Teaching and Learning, Behaviour, Leadership and Management, Health &
Safety and Wellbeing, this should include staff as Head’s have a Duty of Care,
Pay & terms and conditions. Etc…
In addition there were further changes in regulations to displaying
policies and websites.
Pupil premium and what you should know
Myths and Facts
Below is a news report on inspecting Academies – but what
interest me in regards to the report is how school co-operating with each and
the scale of it; Improving best practice – this something that interests me. I aim
to further look at schools and relationships between schools. What support
would a Governor get approaching another school to develop practice? Developing
creativity between schools! What happens within partnerships of schools?
I also need to consider the ethos of my current employer and
school development and focus
Taken from the school website, which is already in the public
domain, further policies can be found on the website http://www.westbrookprimary.com/keyinfo.asp - 10-11 2013 - We also use Thinking Hats and Thinking Maps linking to thinking schools.
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copyright)
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