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This article argues for its central construct – that of transformation – to be understood by teachers and teacher educators in psychological terms. Transformation requires teachers to fashion disciplinary knowledge such that it is accessible to the learner. It is argued that for transformation to happen, teacher thinking must include a sophisticated grasp of cognition and metacognition if teachers are to be characterised as competent, let alone expert. This paper is written within a context of considerable social and academic scrutiny in the UK of the form and content of professional teacher preparation and development.

This study had two purposes. First, it aimed to provide an analysis of the types of questions teachers use to promote thinking, problem-solving and reasoning in their students. Second, it aimed to provide an analysis of the types of discourse the students used to problem-solve and reason during their small group discussions. The results showed that the teachers used a range of questioning strategies from those that probed for information and challenged children’s perspectives to those higher-level questions that required children to provide reasons, make connections or think meta-cognitively.

The purpose of this article is to show how teachers introduce and include cognitive learning strategies as part of their teaching. Furthermore, the article also describes how pupils experience the use of strategies in their learning processes, as seen from the teachers’ perspective. The article outlines in a theoretical and practical way the concepts of self-regulated learning, learning strategies and metacognition by looking at concrete examples in the classroom. This study shows that although self-regulated learning is one of the aims of the teaching practice, this does not mean that the pupils are left on their own to totally direct their own learning.

This article investigates how the use of Pupil Views Templates (PVTs) supports teachers' professional learning. This article reports on a three-year collaborative practitioner enquiry project involving more than 30 primary and secondary schools in England. Links between the tools used, the source of the feedback, and teachers' learning are mapped from a 'second order perspective' derived from the diverse data sources.