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Strategic Partnerships for school education 2019-1-PL01-KA201-065137
Project: Teacher4.0 - comprehensive method of implementation of Industry 4.0
concept into didactic practice in primary and secondary schools

• Be knowledgeable, curious and eager to update your knowledge regarding cybersecurity,
possible malware threats and how to mitigate them.
• Discuss cyberbulling with your students and provide them a set of guidelines to prevent and
handle cyber harassment online.
• Learn to recognize students who are being cyberbullied and be prepared to support them.
• Be a role model to follow. Children and teens need someone they can look up to. If you
consider yourself to be a bad example, consider introducing them to personalities they can
emulate.
• Set rules to the learning environments online. So that the students do not access and bring
any unsuitable online content.
• Encourage your students to let their teacher or councellor know if they feel unsafe in a
virtual classroom, session or forum and report wider concerns to any staff member with
whom they feel comfortable.
• Ensure that your institution will prevent inappropriate and harmful material from being
shared online.

Coordinate with parents. During a parent-teacher meeting or open house, tell them about the school
policy regarding the use of school digital devices. Encourage parents to reinforce the concepts you
are teaching in class. Teach parents how to monitor their kids’ activity online. Educate them how to
ensure safe use of private digital devices such as smartphones, digital watches and toys (which can
access the internet) after school.

Work cybersecurity into the curriculum. Teaching students how to email responsibly, create strong
passwords and connect to secure internet networks. The sooner that students feel that cybersecurity
is a natural part of their lives, the more likely they will
grow up security-conscious.

Maintain personal privacy: be conscious about what information you as their teacher, post online:
be cautious not to reveal too many details about your personal life. It’s important that you remain a
trusted and respected figure in their lives.

Google yourself. Googling yourself will reveal almost any personal information that is publicly
available. Once you know what data about yourself is online, you can find its source and delete
anything you wouldn’t want your students (or anyone else) to see.

Use your school email address to create education-related accounts. This will help keep your
personal email address separate from accounts students may have access to. Don’t forget to log out
from your e-mail accounts every time you finish work or leave your digital device.
School staff should only store personal data on school equipment, use strong passwords, and set
their devices to auto-lock after five minutes. If personal data is downloaded to removable media, like
a USB stick, it must be encrypted and password-protected, and kept away from other users. Staff

This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the
author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any
use which may be made of the information contained therein.