Lessons 5 to 7: The Importance of Individual Relationships

5. The professional relationship between teacher candidate and teacher educator is crucial to the teacher educator's influence on how a teacher candidate will teach.

6. Each teacher candidate takes a unique set of messages from the shared experiences of an education course. The single most important influence on what candidates take away is the tacit knowledge of teaching and learning that they bring from their many years watching their own teachers.

7. Continuing the teacher educator-teacher candidate relationship into the early years of teaching can be productive for individuals who are willing to write about their early teaching experiences.

Lessons Learned as a Teacher Educator (1977-2010)