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CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING TEACHING*
Does the teacher:
1. Show enthusiasm?
2. Relate the subject
to everyday life
and the students’
experience?
3. Encourage
participation by
asking questions
and presenting
problems?
4. Use imaginative leaching aids?
5. Speak and write clearly?
6. Use the vocabulary of the local people and avoid big words?
7. Match the teaching methods to the learning traditions of the local people?
8. Give examples or tell stories to illustrate ideas and new ways?
9. Encourage active learning?
10. Treat the students as friends and as equals?
11. Make sure the shyer students are given a chance to speak?
12. Make himself or herself available to students for discussion after class?
13. Provide enough time for study and review?
14. Avoid embarrassing the students?
15. Encourage quicker students to help those who have more difficulty?
16. Prepare teaching plans and materials in advance?
17. Know the subject adequately?
18. Encourage and respond positively to ideas and criticism from students?
19. Show honesty and openness?
20. Openly admit mistakes or lack of knowledge?
21. Respond to student errors with positive criticism and patience?
22. Provide plenty of opportunities for practical experience?
23. Emphasize how what they learn can be used in the students’ future work?
24. Cover the material that was planned?
25. Emphasize and repeat the most important points?
26. Leave out what is not important or too detailed?
27. Evaluate whether students will be able to use their learning in real-life
situations?
28. Show loyalty to students?
29. Show loyalty and respect for those whose needs are greatest?
*Adapted from a list developed during a training program for students of community health led by Fred Abbatt,
author of Teaching for Better Learning. It is not a complete list. You may add to it or change it to suit the needs
of your own situation. The list can be used for you to evaluate yourself, for your students to evaluate your
teaching, or for you to evaluate the teaching of others.