Connecting the dots: Secondary science teacher candidates’ uptake of the core practice of facilitating sensemaking discussions from teacher education experiences

• Rehearsals of teaching practice function as a bridge from methods to the classroom. • Organizational tools help increase the visual representations during discussions. • Elements of framing and closing discussions are taken up less to the classroom. • Talk moves are taken up extensively in rehearsals and the classroom. • Explicit representations of practice are most often taken up by novice teachers.