9 Major Steps: Dinalupihan, Campus
9 Major Steps: Dinalupihan, Campus
9 Major Steps: Dinalupihan, Campus
I. Introduction
The formulation of school policy should be a cooperative process capitalizing the intellectual resources of
the whole academic staff. This participation in the development of educational policy should not be thought
of as a favour granted by the administration but rather as a right and an obligation.
II. Content
Shared Policy Making Process-Major Steps
Policy making like planning, curriculum making, institution building and the like, follows a certain
process. Like other educational process, it is important that the policy making process should
also approximate a pattern of systematic thinking.
A process is a particular methods of doing something, involving a number of steps or operations for particular
purpose.
Educational policy making occurs when the members and elements of the educational
community undertake the process of arriving at a collegial agreement to make that agreement
their binding guide.
The policies to be effective must take into primary consideration the interest of the faculty and staff as well as the
conflicting interests of those in the organization.
It is then crucial that the steps and participants in shared policy making be identified and determined. There are three
important reasons for this:
9 MAJOR STEPS
STEP 1. DETERMINE ISSUE.
An issue arises because of conflicting interests.
STEP 2. CONDUCT RESEARCHERS AND REFERRALS.
This step in the process starts as a direct consequence of the first step, that is, it is established that there is
indeed an issue.
Researchers should focus on the rational bases upon which the policy maybe anchored and what possible requirements
are needed if the policy is to be adopted for implementation.
Referrals should focus on the possible participation of those who will be affected, acceptance and compliance factors,
support of outside policy makers for the new policy.
These referrals should be able to determine the relationships of the means through which the policy will work and the
ends to which it is addressed.
system, on change and its overall impact. The second set of concerns should be addressed to the possible effects of the
action program on existing resources, generation of resources and new opportunities and incentives for those in the
organization on the one hand, and the clientele on the other.
STEP 4. FORMULATE POLICY STATEMENT.
An educational policy statement is a binding guide enforceable and enforced by the educational constituency
responsible for its formulation. It is adopted through collegial agreement which acknowledges the conflicting
interests and desires of all those who will be affected by it.
First, those who will be affected by the policy will need to be involved in its formulation. Second, that their conflicting
interests and desires will have to be acknowledged. And third, the policy statement itself will have to be reached by all
those involved via consensual agreement.
STEP 5. DESIGN SUPPORT SYSTEMS.
Once the policy statement is formulated, the next step is to design its support systems. This may include but are
not limited to the following Action Program, Administrative Mechanism, and Monitoring System.
Action program- translates the intentions of policy or policy goal into concrete term.
Administrative mechanism- is the structure that will manage the implementation of the action program in accordance
with its objectives.
Monitoring system- which will tell management to what extent the new policy and the new program are performing
according to plan.
STEP 6. WORK POLICY APPROVAL.
Working for the approval of a new policy and its support systems may require several arenas of action.
STEP 7. IMPLEMENT POLICY.
As soon as approval is obtained, dissemination of the approved policy and its support systems follow. One way
of accomplishing this is to call a general meeting of all those who were involved in its formulation or all those
who will be affected by the new policy.
STEP 8.MONITOR EFFECTS.
Monitoring of effects starts soon after policy implementation. Monitoring should be able to determine if the
intended benefits are being appreciated or not and to what degree.
STEP 9. EVALUATE FOR DEVELOPMENT.
Evaluating for further development means either modifying the policy itself or strengthening its support sytem
particularly its action program for greater impact.