Mediation in the in-service programme described here was demonstrated in a
variety of ways, often dialogic, but also visual and actional, to model for the teachers
how to help or support pupils who cannot solve a problem unaided because, as
McGregor (2003, p. 144) has shown, some teachers do not regularly ‘intervene’ to
support learning. Supporting teachers in developing more mediational techniques to
nurture more effective learning is pertinent, because, as Murphy (2000, p. 158)
identified: