How we use and protect your data
As a participant in a Teach Well Course, teachers and leaders undertake surveys with the purpose of providing feedback to help teachers in Australia improve their teaching practices. Teachers will also collect student assessment data for their own purposes and share de-identified student data with us.
We have the highest regard for your personal information and your students’ privacy and realise that the success of our services depends on the trust that you have in the way we handle the data you provide to us.
In terms of the collected data as part of the course, Teach Well will store and handle the data securely. Specifically:
» No data is collected that can identify individual students. If teachers share data that is not de-identified and could identify individual students, we will remove this data from our records.
» Your de-identified student data will be shared with members of the Melbourne Archdiocese of Catholic Schools for the purpose of evaluating the Flourishing Learners project.
» Teacher survey responses will be shared with Melbourne Archdiocese of Catholic Schools and Ochre Education for the purposes of evaluating the project. Teacher names will be removed from this data.
» Teach Well will also prepare reports that use aggregated de-identified data to explain the impact of the project to a range of stakeholders. All data will be treated with strictest confidence and no results which could identify any individual participant will be published without your prior agreement and explicit consent.
» You are entitled to withdraw your data at anytime in the future. Should you wish to do so, please contact Ingrid at ingrid@teach-well.com.au.
We believe in the power of teacher voice to improve education in Australia, including our offering in the TIM Series. Each year we analyse aggregated teacher data to look for trends and learn more about how we can understand the impact of the course and how we can improve our work in supporting teachers and leaders. By participating in the teacher and leader surveys, you agree your data can be used by Teach Well for such research and analysis. SurveyMonkey hosts Teach Well surveys and stores and handles the collected data according to their privacy policy. Please review it here.
Teach Well’s reporting and communications
Teach Well is committed to ensuring we report the impact of our programs and activities transparently. To do this, we share some aggregated, de-identified data from the teacher and leader surveys on our website about the experience of teachers and leaders in the course. This aids system, school leaders and teachers to make informed decisions about the course and its fit for their context. An example of the high-level data from previous year participants from other Teach Well Series can be found on the Impact page of the Teach Well website. As a participant in the course, you will be registered to the Teach Well website to access online resources. By being registered to the Teach Well website, you accept our Privacy Policy. Please review the Privacy Policy here.
We do include a small number of quotes, written by teachers and leaders in their own words. We will contact you for your explicit permission to use a quote before publishing anything. You do not have any obligation to consent.
Photo and video release
The video you share of your teaching as part of the course is used by the Teach Well team only for feedback and coaching purposes. Occasionally, a participant has an excellent video example that could benefit future participants. If we identify this as a possibility, we will contact you directly to request your explicit permission and consent to share. Importantly, you have no obligation to share your footage for this purpose. Past participants from other Teach Well programs have said they found looking at past participant footage as either “Extremely Helpful” or “Very Helpful” and you will be the beneficiary of other teachers who have generously shared their footage to benefit teachers and leaders. If you would like to withdraw your previously granted permission at any time, please contact the Teach Well team at info@teach-well.com.au.
Contact
If you have questions at any time about this information, you may contact the Teach Well team via phone at 0411 499 485 or via email at info@teach-well.com.au.
Consent
You may request a copy of this consent form for your records.