ABSTRACT
Checklists are based on known good practice and spell out concisely what individuals and teams have to do to do their jobs well. Checklists enable everyone who is involved in key tasks to share decision-making, methods and responsibility for their work. Ten checklists are given for key aspects of teaching. They are to use checklists well, to have good meetings, to make good use of the pupils' views, to plan sequences of successful lessons, to have motivating lessons, to make the pupils' feedback useful, to have productive moderation meetings, to enjoy professional and institutional development, to benefit from lesson observations and visits and for appraisal to be useful. However, Atul Gawande in The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right has shown how using a checklist process properly can save lives and money in surgery and medical care, building construction, aircraft piloting, space travel, food preparation, auditing and investment.
