using the visual analysis software CiteSpace,analysis in 2003-2022"core"and"CSSCI"includ-ed in the database of"teacher competence"as the theme of high quality literature,draw the keywords,key-word clustering and keyword time zone knowledge map,on this basis,explore the hot spots of evolution and development.The results show that the hot spots of teacher competency research focus on basic theory research,competency model research,teacher competency structure research and competency evaluation re-search,and teaching competency and digital competency are the frontier topics of future research.