Developing as a Teacher Educator: A Guide to Establishing Identity, Exploring Pedagogy, and Navigating Policy (Association of Teacher Educators)

It is commonly understood that teacher educators help develop teachers.It is less commonly understood how teacher educators come to develop as teacher educators themselves.Who and what develops the teacher educator? We know that teacher education does not exist apart from the teacher educator, yet too often teacher educator development becomes an afterthought in our teacher education discourse.This book examines this key group’s development through historical and contemporary contexts using conceptual, theoretical, and pedagogical considerations. Understanding the complex work associated with the roles and responsibilities of being a teacher educator, the contributors to this text include experts in varying teacher educator development experiences and settings.We use the term guide in the title to connote that there is no prescription for learning how to be a teacher educator.Rather, we hope this text offers a survey for teacher educators as they journey down the path of teacher educat