This article reports on a two-year self-study exploring my roles and evolving philosophy as an early childhood teacher educator teaching diversity in the US. I was interested in better understanding how and what I can learn from the complexity of my teaching experiences. Data included my professional journals, students' reflection journals, and…

The graduate teaching assistantship, structured as an internship experience, provides an effective mechanism for training teacher educators. Guidelines for structuring training seminars (an essential component of the internship) are outlined in this article, as well as personal, pedagogical, and professional benefits accruing to participants. (IAH)

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)

A community college professor recounts how he took a risk and left the security of his job when it began to feel stale in order to push his creativity as an educator to the limits. Moving to a university, he took risks in the classroom and pushed his students to their creative limits. (SM)

One teacher educator returned to a secondary classroom to test her mature understanding of teaching and learning with real students and gain insights to influence her teaching of preservice teachers. The experience highlighted the need for teachers to analyze students' learning or lack of learning and respond to that analysis. (SM)

Describes the development and implementation of "The Curriculum and Pedagogy of Teacher Education," a doctoral course that used case studies to facilitate teacher learning opportunities at all levels. Students examined a set of oral cases, wrote their own cases, and discussed articles exploring subject matter, method, theory, and practice. (SM)

Paper examines how one teacher conceived of classroom authority during three phases of his educational experience (student teaching, graduate school, and university teaching), suggesting that teacher educators must incorporate serious discussions about the nature of authority in the same way that K-12 teachers ought to question how they enact…