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Onsite Rules Best Practice

We strive to create safe learning spaces at our campus and support anyone who willingly follows our values.

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Accordingly, we make available to our partner schools our Terms of Engagement for distribution to teachers, parents, and students prior to engagement with our onsite programs.

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Terms of Teacher Engagement 

​Myself

  • I will consider what Monash Tech School is trying to achieve with:

    • Design Thinking​

    • Student Capabilities

    • Integration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and HASS (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) and real-world challenges.

  • I will be comfortable, confident and capable of dealing with student behaviour issues.

  • I will consider what I want to learn by being at Monash Tech School.

 
My Work

  • I will attend to the program, student health and wellbeing matters that arise.

  • I am aware of my legal responsibilities; I will actively manage the class and am able to address issues that arise.

  • I will support and participate in Professional Learning Programs such as Design2Innovate, Design+Deliver, Design+Lead, and Design, Discovery, and Drinks.

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Culture of Support

  • We will support the work of Monash Tech School facilitators and remain focused, attentive and present in the learning space.

  • We will encourage students to collaborate, apply their critical thinking, improve on their work, and share their work.

  • We will work together to ensure adequate student supervision at all times within the Monash Tech School facility, on-campus and off-campus.

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Collective Responsibility

  • We will contact Monash Tech School if we have unanswered questions before arriving.

  • We will brief and provide students with information on appropriate clothing, food ordering processes.

  • We will familiarise ourselves with the Program Information Pack, bring the required permission forms and excursion handbook with emergency contact details.

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Terms of Student Engagement

​Myself

  • I am mindful and open to learning.

  • I am ready to learn and open to new ways of doing things.

  • I will learn and grow as a student in my time here at Monash Tech School.

  • I have the right to feel safe and speak up for myself and express my culture. I have a responsibility to speak up for others.

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My Work

  • I will take on the challenges asked of me by the facilitators, my teachers and my peers and ask for help if I feel I need it.

  • I will support the work of the staff by showing them, the facilities, and equipment respect. I am responsible for hurt or harm I cause and pay for damage done.

  • I will actively support the participation and inclusion of Aboriginal students.

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Culture of Support

  • We respect our time together by respecting each other’s culture, need for space, safety, and security.

  • We support each other by equally contributing to the work, including others in the work, and sharing responsibility for the quality of the work.

  • We trust each other by allowing others the freedom and space to learn.

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Collective Responsibility

  • We will clean up after ourselves (learning space, toilets, lounge areas).

  • We will remember to take what we need during break times and not interrupt other groups.

  • We are aware the facility is on University grounds and are mindful of each other’s security and safety.

Staff Personal and Professional Conduct

​Myself

  • I will stay true to my role and responsibilities; and recognise there are limits and boundaries to my relationships with other staff, students and adults.

  • I will ensure my personal interests (financial, private, business) do not interfere with my duties; and where it might be perceived, conflicts are declared.

  • I will pay attention to the needs of students and staff with disability, from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, are LGBTIQ+, and Aboriginal to provide a psychological and culturally safe place for them.

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My Work

  • I work within the limits of my professional expertise while seeking to extend my skills and abilities.

  • I am committed to my own professional learning.

  • I will maintain confidentiality when discussing workplace issues.

  • I will maintain professional relationships with parents, industry representatives, and partner school representatives.

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Culture of Support

  • I share responsibility in keeping all learners safe.

  • I maintain objectivity in my relationships with others.

  • I will provide opportunities for all learners to learn and treat them with courtesy and dignity.

  • I will demonstrate collegiality.

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Collective Responsibility

  • I am aware of my legal responsibilities in relation to:

    • discrimination, harassment and vilification,

    • negligence

    • child safety and mandatory reporting

    • privacy

    • occupational health and safety

    • professional registration and accreditation.

  • I will work effectively with our partners, the Tech Schools network, and the Department of Education.

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