Exploring Professional Development Opportunities for Teacher Educators

Focusing on the partnerships and collaborations between teacher educators and students with regards to faculty members' professional development, contributors from around the world provide insight into professional development opportunities in the context of teaching and collaborating with students.

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Leah Shagrir is a senior researcher, and before her retirement she served as a teacher educator at Levinsky College of Education, Israel. Dr Shagrir was awarded a Distinguished Fulbright Award in Teaching 2009, to conduct research in Vanderbilt University, USA.

Smadar Bar-Tal is a senior researcher and lecturer, a leader in the field of online teaching and learning, at the Center for Innovative and Optimal Teaching at the Levinsky College of Education in Israel.

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Introduction 1. Living and Learning Partnerships in Teacher Education 2. Professional Development of Teacher Educators That Occurs as a Result of Working with Student Teachers Literature Review 3. Developing (as) Critically Reflective Practitioners: Linking Preservice Teacher and Teacher Educator Development 4. Student Teachers Creating Space for Teacher Educators' Reflection and Professional Development 5. The Silent Revolution in Teacher Education 6. Reflections on establishing a student-staff partnership in Irish university-based teacher education 7. Teacher Educators and Student Teachers Working as Partners to Improve the Effectiveness of Modelling: A Professional Learning Journey for the Teacher Educators 8. How Does Working with and Mentoring Student Teachers Shape Teacher Educators' Professional Identity? A Case from Turkey 9. Teacher Educators and Student Teachers' International Experiences: Mentoring Changes, Challenges and Opportunities 10. Evaluating Professional Development of Teachers Educators: Analysis of Pedagogical Experience 11. Narrative Pedagogies in Cultivating Teacher Educators' Professional Development 12. Studying the Evaluative Views of Students as a Tool for Professional Development of Teacher Educators 13. Promoting Research Activity with Student Teachers as Professional Development for Teacher Educators