This two-part paper offers some guidelines for training in observation skills. Part one describes nine guidelines for observers. Part two delineates 10 tasks in observing and identifies ways of accomplishing them. Tasks include identifying goals of the learning task; gaining evidence of teacher's planning; determining student motivation level; assessing teacher's strategies; determining student interest, morale, commitment; determining the degree to which learning activities are based on student needs; determining the degree to which learning outcomes are being adequately assessed; determining the degree to which learning outcomes are adequate; and determining the degree to which democracy is practiced in the classroom. (PD)