This article discusses efforts at Ohio State (1972-1975) to revamp the doctoral program in teacher education. An outcome of those efforts was the course described in this article. Rationales for inclusion of inquiry and the study of research in teacher education are given. Course content, materials and strategies are outlined. (IAH)

The question of how the abilities of teacher educators can be identified and what these abilities should be is addressed. The following five ways of identifying abilities are discussed: (1) performing a task analysis of what teacher educators do; (2) determining what effective classroom teachers do and preparing teacher educators to produce…