The Long and Winding Road: Reflections on Experience of Becoming Teacher Educator

Abstract

Nine years into my present role as a teacher educator in pre-service and graduate education programs at a small university in Northern Ontario, Canada, and after a successful career as a teacher and administrator in public school systems on both sides of the Atlantic, the opportunity to write this retrospective chapter has further illuminated how multi-faceted layers of knowledge and experience have contributed to the (still-a-work-in-process) development of my professional identity as a teacher educator.