Tips for Teachers

Protecting Privacy

Once technology is made available to students, it is the teacher’s responsibility to ensure that it is used appropriately. Teachers oversee how students use textbooks and other media, they also should be sure the access to and use of technology is consistent with the appropriate academic behaviors expected in the classroom.
Checklist for ways teachers can protect their students’ privacy:
v Don’t place confidential data or commentary on any unsecured electronic equipment.
v Guard your log in names and passwords.
v Secure storage devices (floppies, CD-RWs and USB drives) in places where they are not obtainable by people unauthorized to view their contents.
v Don’t leave hard copy of assessments, evaluations, and reports of student behavior and achievement on printer trays in common areas.
v Once used, file privileged information, whether on storage devices or on hard copy, in secured spaces or of no longer needed, shred it (preferably with a crosscut shredder).
v Follow school district policies and procedures in place to guard students’ privacy
v Guard photographs of students as well as text,
v Become aware of classroom and district software that offers parents access to their children’s progress by password in read only format.

Duffy, J,. & McDonald, J,. (2007). Teaching and Learning with Technology Pearson
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