This study reports on what 13 teacher educators going through a procedure to become registered as a teacher educator in 2011–2012 learned, what goals they formulated for their further professional development and what activities they planned to achieve these goals. The methods used in this study are …

Professional development of teacher educators is an important topic, because teacher educators need to maintain and enhance their expertise in order to educate our future teachers (Kools & Koster, n.d. ; Dengerink, Lunenberg & Kools, 2015). How do teacher educators fulfil this task, especially within …

Lerarenopleiders begeleiden het leren van (a.s.) leraren. Maar hoe staat het met hun eigen professionele ontwikkeling? Op welke terreinen willen ze zich verder ontwikkelen? Hoe willen ze leren? Wat motiveert lerarenopleiders om professionaliseringsactiviteiten te ondernemen? In welk opzicht hangen voorkeuren …

Teacher educators' role in in being an active researcher is more and more acknowledged: teacher educators need to be able to do practioner research themselves and they are expected to support student teachers in doing research as well. This is a rather new role for most teacher educators and therefore …

In which areas and domains do individual teacher educators prefer to work on their professional development? What kind of learning activities do they want to take on and with whom? Are there significant differences in these preferences between teacher educators? This article reports on a recent survey …

Recentelijk zijn twee studies uitgevoerd naar het professionaliseren van ervaren lerarenopleiders. De ene is een kwantitatieve survey onder VELON-leden (Dengerink, Lunenberg & Kools, z.j.). De andere is een kwalitatieve studie onder 25 lerarenopleiders uit verschillende landen (Van der Klink, Kools, …

Research topic/aim The professional development of teacher educators (T Eds) is increasingly being recognised as a topic of paramount importance, partly caused by the attention for the lifelong learning of those responsible for teaching student teachers. In this presentation we focus on the professional …

Abstract At this international symposium on the professionalism of teacher educators an extensive review study on the roles, accompanying behavior and the factors that support the development of these roles and behavior will be presented. Six roles of teacher educators were distinguished, from which …

Although teacher educators' role as researcher is generally accepted (Cochran-Smith, 2003; Clarke, 2001), not every teacher educator is capable to conduct research. Teacher educators in, 'new universities', like the Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) work in a context where a research culture …

presentatie over professionaliseringsbehoeften van lerarenopleiders