Finding and developing a "golden thread" between theory and practice in education entails strategic planning. It should embrace a full and comprehensive awareness of:
1. contextual factors,
2. associated aims and intentions,
3. pedagogical reasoning, and
4. noticing.
Noticing students and their learning will guide educators in identifying what needs to be done in classrooms and how it can be done. In this way, we are supporting a context-conscious approach. A strong "theory–practice" thread in teaching decisions and practices reflects a consciousness of students in their totality, and a responsiveness to their specific needs.
Such an approach is worth gold for classroom and behaviour management, students' development and quality teaching. Quality teaching needs to be guided by a well-suited conceptual framing of teaching decisions" this supports the action of the invaluable link between theory and practice. In turn, a strong link between theory and practice offers a solid foundation for pedagogical mobility and flexibility.