5-Minute Walkthrough Checklist
A quick classroom walkthrough checklist for senior leaders to capture a snapshot of teaching quality, student engagement, and learning environment during brief visits.
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Greenwood International School 5-MINUTE WALKTHROUGH CHECKLIST Teacher: Ms. Sarah Chen Class: 10B Mathematics Observer: Dr. Michael Roberts Date: 2026-09-01 Time: [time_in] – [time_out] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LEARNING ENVIRONMENT □ Classroom is clean and organised □ Displays are relevant and up-to-date □ Seating arrangement supports learning □ Resources are accessible □ Lighting and temperature are appropriate ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STUDENT ENGAGEMENT □ Students are on task □ Students are actively participating □ Students are working at appropriate level □ Positive behaviour is evident □ Students ask/answer questions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TEACHING PRACTICE □ Learning objectives are shared/displayed □ Teacher circulates and supports students □ Pace of lesson is appropriate □ Differentiation is evident □ Assessment for learning is used ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BRIEF NOTES Key observations and any immediate feedback given: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow-up required: □ Yes □ No Observer Signature: Dr. Michael Roberts Date: _________ Greenwood International School
About This Template
A five-minute walkthrough: engagement, routines, environment and work on display — quick enough to complete between lessons.
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Topics this template covers: walkthrough checklist · classroom walkthrough · quick observation · teaching quality
How to Use This Template
Note Time Entered and Time Exited — five minutes means five minutes — then rate Learning Environment, Student Engagement and Teaching Practice against your school's shared descriptors rather than personal taste.
Write Brief Notes as observable facts: percentage on task, types of questioning, work displayed. Teacher Name and Class Name go at the top, Observer Name at the bottom. Share findings informally the same day; walkthroughs are for patterns over time, not for grading individual lessons on one visit.
When to Use This Template
Scheduled lesson observation
Share the observation focus and rubric with the teacher beforehand, record evidence against each dimension, and agree on a next observation date.
Annual staff evaluation cycle
Run self-assessment, observation and results sections through the same rubric, then collate scores and goals for the performance review meeting.
Agreeing goals for the next cycle
Close each evaluation by recording two or three specific, measurable goals for the next period and the support the teacher will receive, then revisit them at the following observation.
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