Who is the Teacher Educator:From the Perspective of Teacher Professional Development Stage
With the continuous deepening of research on teacher professional development,teacher educator,as teacher trainer,is gradually integrated into the discourse system of teacher education research.This paper takes the self-renewal orientation of teacher professional development theory as the analysis framework,and explores"who is the teacher educator"at each development stage.Research shows that in the non-concern stage,primary and sec-ondary school teachers are the potential teacher educators;in the stage of pre-service concerns,college teachers and those who are creditable in primary and secondary schools are teacher educators of normal students;in the stage of concerns about survival,they who have rich experience are the first-time teacher educators;in the stage of task con-cerns,the teacher group in the professional learning community is the teacher educator;and in the stage of self-renewal concerns,the team in the teacher studio is the teacher educator.
primary and secondary school teachersteacher educatorprofessional developmentprofessional development stage