Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023): Teacher Educators’ Professional Competencies: the Unrecognized Profession in Ethiopia

Inadequate transfer of knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors from the context of teacher education to the school environment, teaching children is a big concern in this 21^st century. To realize this, teacher competence is the most respected part of educational assets. A person to be considered as a member of profession of teaching student teachers has to possess essential qualities and professional competence. Teachers should have personal, social, professional competences and positive attitude towards teaching profession. The present article aims at evaluating and synthesizing teacher educators’ professional competencies from various sources. Systematic review method is employed to identify the uncertainty of teacher educators, policy and practice gaps, in Ethiopia. The entire attempt is to relate the synthesis to the Ethiopian context; while reflecting the drawbacks of the Ethiopian teacher education system. Fifty one articles were identified using web searching terms, and qualitative systematic review was employed. Available literature of various years (from year 1959 to 2019) were identified, selected, read, reviewed, analyzed, synthesized, interpreted, discussed and concluded. The available literatures those are focusing on teacher educators were selected. The findings of the reviews show that teacher educators professional competence has been supported by policy and give due attention in the other part of the world, unlike Ethiopia. No one should be a teacher educator without high quality professional competences; and this is achieved when teacher education is independently organized within its own structural set up, to work towards its vision, goals and mission. To create teachers professional competences, there must be high level professionally competent teacher educators in a well-organized teacher education system. High level of teacher educators’ competence realizes greater achievement in education; whereas, low level of teachers’ competence resulted in poorer education, like we are facing today. Ethiopia really needs teacher education system that meets the demands of Ethiopian people in this 21^st century.