Abstract：Abstract: The quality of foreign language teachers is vital to the quality of foreign language education. Correspondingly, the quality of foreign language teacher educators has a direct impact on the quality of foreign language teacher education. However, there is a scarcity of research on foreign language teacher educators at home and abroad. Taking a self-narrative method, the present study focused on the author, examining her experience of becoming a teacher educator through her long-term working with school EFL teachers. The findings of this study show that, to become a supporter of teacher professional development, a teacher educator needs to have solid theoretical foundation and rich practical experience and be able to “walk” between theory and practice freely for the development of both theory and practice. This study gives an example for those who are and plan to be involved in teacher education.
Key words: foreign language teacher; researcher; teacher educator; school EFL teachers; public lessons
