The author discusses misconceptions about behavior modeling as a management skills training method and elaborates on three major steps in the modeling process: (1) effective demonstration of master performance; (2) guided student practice; and (3) feedback on the quality of student effort. (SK)

Cooperative education is a learning strategy that fits very well with basic laws of learning. In fact, several basic important learning processes are far better adapted to the cooperative education strategy than to methods that lean entirely on classroom instruction. For instance, cooperative education affords more opportunities for reinforcement,…

This paper examines 10 principles of learning and suggests ways in which vocational education teachers may apply them in their classrooms. The following principles are discussed: reductionism, the law of effect, imitation and observational learning, classroom management without punishment, shaping, the law of primacy, token rewards, the law of…