ABSTRACT
Both teachers and children had a lot to say about learning. Drawing together their beliefs about learning styles, motivation, interaction, and children's thinking with the strategies, one can say that these expert teachers do indeed base their teaching on understandings of learning. All the teachers had strong beliefs that the children in their class were different types of learner using different learning strategies, echoing Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. Teachers theorised that these individual learners must be using different strategies in different subjects, some appropriate and some which did not work. All the teachers believed that feedback was important to children's learning. Teachers had various theories, however, about how feedback should be given, when it should be given and what its specific purposes were, if children were to learn as a result. Overall, teachers believed that it was their responsibility to point out links for children so that they would better use the brain's natural tendency to make connections.
