Exercise 1

1.   Examine professional examples

• S.O. in education -- a worked example here
• Using S.O. in PE -- try some ideas here
• If you can get electronic access, try this article . If not, look it up manually : Cushion, C. and Jones, R. (2001) A Systematic Observation of Top-Level Youth Soccer Coaches, in Journal of Sport Behaviour, 24 (4).
  
• Try this article on observing and recording the behaviour of fans at football matches -- it nearly is but not quite S.O.
  

Try also the ORACLE studies of British primary schools -- eg  Galton, M., Simon, B. and Croll, P. (1980) Inside the Primary Classroom, London: Routledge.