Using Learning Walks as a Department Improvement Tool

This is a guide to using learning walks as a tool for departmental improvement, with a supporting example feedback form. It has been written by an experienced leader who worked in a school that improved its inspection rating by two grades. The resource is appropriate for use across all secondary school subjects.

This resource includes:
Guidance notes on the importance and implementation of learning walks, how they can be used as a department improvement tool and criteria that can be used when observing lessons.
Example feedback form that can be completed during the learning walk, with criteria linked to learning, teaching and progress, marking and assessment and the classroom environment. Fully editable.
Example of a completed learning walk feedback form.