While every primary and secondary school in Australia is different, schools tend to implement their Parliaments using one of the following three distinct methods.

• Integrating your CEFA School Parliament with the curriculum.
• Introducing a CEFA School Parliament as a co-curricular project outside class time. E.g. "The Parliamentary Club"
• Using a CEFA School Parliament as a student leadership and governance initiative. E.g. either compliment or replace the Student       Representative Council (SRC)

The first method is to utilize the school’s curriculum. Class or Year Parliaments are implemented as a means of teaching a particular subject in order to address specific required syllabus outcomes, for example

• As components of Years 5 and 6 Civics and Citizenship/Government/Democracy units of work; or.
• As components of Years 9 and 10 Commerce, History, and Civics and Citizenship units of work.

At schools opting to implement a CEFA School Parliament following the second method, the parliament is established via a school club or interest group, where students who have a particular interest in civics, citizenship and politics meet regularly to learn about our democratic system with the goal of creating a school parliament.  In this way it is similar to the chess club, the environmental club or the running club. However experience has shown that once the CEFA School Parliament is established this club rapidly ceases to be a niche interest group and attracts a very broad following among the student population.St Joseph's College Albion Park NSW pioneered the Parliamentary Club pathway. The teacher, Don Perna, who piloted this world-first civics education project, is the former National Director of CEFA School Parliaments

Click here for St Joseph's - A Case Study

The third major pathway, and one chosen by an increasing number of schools, is to implement a CEFA School Parliament as a way to encourage student leadership initiatives. Often, it is implemented in one of the following two ways: