Principal’s Checklist
- Evidence of active learning in the classroom
- Evidence of hands on activities
- Children being allowed to ask questions
- Children observing, hypothesizing, analyzing, interpreting
information, communicating with each other
- Lot of discussions and participation
- Teaching approaches chosen by the teacher caters to the
different learning styles of students
- Use of graphic organizers by the teacher for
- Teaching
- Showing the ‘big picture’
- Linking with other concepts/topics
- Reviewing
- Questioning Skill of the teacher: Asking higher order
questions that help students to think and reflect
- Use of group work in the classroom
- Appropriate methods of grouping
- Appropriate management of group work
- Clear cut task definition to each student
- Each student on task and actively participating in the
activity
- A slight increase in the noise level in the classroom
- Structured lesson planning
- The instructional objectives are more focused
- The Multiple Intelligences of children are being catered
- Planning of key questions
- Innovative homework
- Use of appropriate assessment strategies that provide
feedback to teachers about the quality of teaching learning
process
- Use of appropriate Instructional aids
- A lively non threatening classroom environment
- Teachers collaborating with their colleagues for curriculum
planning
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