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Levis-Pilz, Gladys – Action in Teacher Education, 1982
Classroom observation assignments for preservice teachers allow them to observe detailed relationships among classroom space and teacher student interaction. Through structured observation, preservice teachers become aware of classroom interactions in a vivid and instructive manner. (CJ)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Education Majors, Higher Education

Hasbargen, Arthur – Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception, 1982
Describes the reaction of seven learning disabled and mildly emotionally disturbed children to reading and discussion of fairy tales. Compared to a control group, the children exposed to fairy tales did show progress. No increase in negative reactions and behaviors was noted. Discusses limitations to the study. (JAC)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Emotional Disturbances
Mahon, Robert L. – Community College Frontiers, 1980
Discusses the unconscious process by which humans learn to write through imitation and repetition, and describes the employment of these techniques in English composition instruction. Argues that teacher authority, based on his/her subject knowledge and ability to communicate, is also necessary to student motivation. (JP)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, English Instruction, Imitation, Observational Learning

Ellis, William D.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1980
The effects of training using visual modeling prompts as preresponse and as error-correction prompting, and a combination of both procedures were examined by teaching vocational rehabilitation clients three assembly tasks. Preresponse prompting resulted in fewer total errors and more trials. The combination group demonstrated superior performance…
Descriptors: Adults, Assembly (Manufacturing), Feedback, Observational Learning

Perkes, Victor A. – Science and Children, 1979
The value of involving children in experiencing environmental phenomena and observing living organisms is advocated. Suggestions are presented for offering a richer set of science experiences for children. (SA)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Environmental Education

Sovik, Nils – Visible Language, 1979
Notes that copying is a common technique for training perceptual motor skills such as handwriting; describes an experiment in which stimuli to be copied were presented dynamically or statically close to or distant from children seven and 10 years old and discusses the implications of the results for teaching handwriting. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Feedback

Davidson, Graham R. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1979
This study of modeling behavior in Aboriginal and White Australian boys examines the ways that racial characteristics may intervene in cross-cultural research as factors contributing to performance on experimental and standardized psychological tests. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Black Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Modeling (Psychology), Observational Learning

Angseesing, J. P. A. – Journal of Biological Education, 1979
Discusses how the nature of the rock and, particularly, its fossils can be used in ecology courses for schools and colleges to help students to deduce the nature of the environment at the time the rock was deposited. A checklist and ways of identifying geological sites and fossils are included. (HM)
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Earth Science, Ecological Factors
John-Steiner, Vera; Osterreicher, Helgi – Notes from Workshop Center for Open Education, 1976
Pueblo children observe adults involved in large sequences of activity that are meaningful and continuous; their loving and close relationship with elders is basic to their developing sense of identity. Indian teachers, recalling childhood, mention many situations where relatives' teaching was elaborately verbal as well as demonstrative;…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Cultural Differences, Family Relationship

Melara, Gloria E. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1996
Examines the effect of learning style on the performance of college students (n=40) within two different hypertext structures. Results indicate both structures equally accommodated learners with preferences on experimentation and learners with preferences on observation; network structures accommodated learning styles better than hierarchical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction

Whalen, Catherine; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1996
Three elementary students with mental retardation were taught math facts during small group instruction in a regular classroom, using unrelated instructional feedback (sight word vocabulary cards). Results found that all students learned their targeted stimuli, some of their unrelated stimuli, and some of their peers' target stimuli through…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classroom Communication, Elementary Education, Feedback

Schoen, Sharon F. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1989
Presented are examples of academic, social, daily living, and motor skills that might be targeted for observational instruction for students with handicaps. At each of three phases of development (acquisition level, fluency level, and generalization level), suggestions are offered on choosing what to teach and deciding how to teach. (JDD)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Stages, Disabilities

Jobin, Raymond A. – Journal of Geography, 1991
Presents a lesson plan that enables children to identify their community as a nodal region. Includes field trips, map tracing and comparison, discussion, and observation. Emphasizes children's analysis of the effect of rail transportation on their community. Suggests using the students' community as a geographic laboratory for hands-on experience.…
Descriptors: Cartography, Discussion, Elementary Education, Field Trips

Keel, Marie C.; Gast, David L. – Exceptional Children, 1992
Three fifth grade students with learning disabilities were taught to recognize multisyllabic basal vocabulary words using constant time delay in a small-group instructional arrangement and were assessed on ability to recognize, spell, and define both their own target words and observational words. The procedure was effective in establishing…
Descriptors: Definitions, Incidental Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades

Stamp, Laurie Nicholson – Childhood Education, 1993
The pleasures and advantages of informal learning are highlighted in a story about childhood visits to a fabric shop. Contrasts the unhurried, flexible, self-directed nature of informal learning situations with the more structured and controlled environment of the classroom. Discusses skills and lessons learned in informal settings and suggests…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning, Incidental Learning