Using this resource in your school
While this work is copyright, permission is given to teachers to make copies of the guide for use within their own schools. The CyberSafe Schools Quick Reference Guide has been specially formatted to allow teachers to photocopy it.
Electronic copies of the guide are available on the NetAlert website (www.netalert.gov.au).
While some of the content of the guide may apply to students, it is not intended that this resource be handed out to students, parents or carers. However, teachers or school leaders may find it useful to adapt some of this information for a non-teacher audience.
Professional development
Schools may find it useful to introduce parts of this resource to teachers in a staged way. This guide or its parts might be introduced or discussed at staff, faculty or teaching team meetings.
Audiences for the guide may be trainee teachers who are new to classroom teaching, or experienced teachers who have used the internet for teaching and want to be more informed about safe approaches.
A core resource for teachers within this guide is the CyberSafe Schools Quick Reference Guide, written for both primary and secondary teachers. This is arranged around stages of schooling to take account of the different curriculums of the states and territories. While the quick reference guide does not constitute a curriculum or syllabus, its information is based on the content of state and territory curriculum frameworks and syllabuses.
A professional development approach could include:
- Identifying a ‘champion’ or a team within the school with an interest or responsibility for presenting A teacher’s guide to internet safety to staff.
- Introducing this resource and the wall chart at a staff meeting.
- Distributing the CyberSafe Schools Quick Reference Guide to all teachers, including suggestions on how they may use and store it.
- Referring teachers to the CyberSafe Schools website.
- Identifying year level or faculty groups who can evaluate how best to incorporate the resource into their teaching programs.
- Encouraging teaching teams to begin an internet safety project in the classroom and report back to staff.
- Evaluating and publicising the internet safety policies and technical solutions made within the school.
- Communicating and using internet safety resources with students and parents by, for example, adapting this information for the school newsletter.
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