We were talking a week a few weeks ago about the Susan Gross Administrator Checklist, and it is indeed a most useful document, but I think it is too busy. Honestly, I think Susan just wrote as many things as she could think of in order to drive home the point about comprehensible input’s effectiveness. Most people agree that it is too long for most administrators to use in an effective way during observations.
Robert Harrell has a much more manageable and therefore useable and practical checklist for administrators and visitors to our classrooms. Here is the link. We do have permission from Robert to copy and use this if we choose:
