This article focuses on aspects of the professional development of five beginning teacher educators in four higher education institutions in England. Examples of their developing pedagogic practices and reasoning and conceptions of their roles and identities as teacher educators in their new settings have been generated from interviews from this longitudinal case study. Individual differences, which emerged from the start, remain but greater confidence to be more experimental with their student-teachers, to plan for student-teacher-led learning and to undertake modelling and more open discussion about their pedagogical practice and principles are reported.