Lochan, Samuel2011-01-282011-01-282005-12https://hdl.handle.net/2139/8818This article argues that the education of a teacher has to be conceptualized as one articulated process beginning in the schools and universities, and then continuing with institutions of initial teacher education. In order to ensure that the policies and programmes adopted at each level are synchronized, it is suggested that all the agencies involved in teacher education in Trinidad and Tobago should share some common understandings about what it means to prepare a teacher to work in the school system in Trinidad and Tobago, and the stages involved in such preparationenTeacher educationTrinidad and TobagoArticle