To support pupils' learning, teachers must understand what and how their pupils have learned, and teacher education should teach candidates how to do this. This article reports on survey data (n = 270) from three programmes and observation data (N = 104 h) from six programmes, located in Norway, Finland and the US. It examines the candidates'…

Research on teacher professional development is extensive but there are fewer studies about the practitioners who facilitate professional development. Here we report on a pilot programme for professional development facilitators rooted in a cycle of action research. Informed by a categorisation of professional knowledge and skills of facilitators,…

This article is a report on the findings of three case studies that focused on elementary teachers' in-the-moment noticing across a month of instruction. Extending Jacobs and her colleagues' framework (Jacobs, Lamb, and Philipp, 2010), this articles categorizes the mediums (i.e., written accounts, verbal interactions, physical strategies) by which…