Quality teacher educators = quality teachers? Conceptualizing essential domains of knowledge for those who teach teachers

Abstract

Becoming a teacher educator involves more than a job title. One becomes a teacher educator as soon as one does teacher education, but one’s professional identity as a teacher educator is constructed over time. Developing an identity and practices in teacher education is best understood as a process of becoming. Though the work of teaching shares much in common with the work of teacher education, the two positions are significantly divergent in important ways.

Keywords:

• Teacher educators
• quality teaching
• teacher educator preparation
• teacher educator knowledge
• knowledge domains for teaching

Notes

1. http://www.ate1.org/pubs/uploads/tchredstds0308.pdf.