What is Pre-Service

This chapter explores integrating LGTIQ themes and content into teacher education through three perspectives. First, the chapter offers the auto-ethnographic reflections of a queer teacher educator and some of the ways that they have grappled with their identity and being out and visible in the higher education setting. Next this chapter explores efforts made by this teacher educator to help pre-service teachers think about integrating LGTIQ history into their future classrooms. The chapter offers a framework for teachers to think about learning objectives as they plan and implement LGTIQ history lessons, including lessons that are considered as ‘queer representation lessons', ‘queer content lessons', and ‘queer lens lessons'. Finally, this chapter discusses efforts to create space on the program level to help pre-service teachers be prepared to work with and support LGTIQ students, colleagues, and families.