Teacher efficacy in Teaching and Teacher Education

•12 of 111 TATE articles on teacher efficacy reviewed.•Articles provide sphere of growing teacher efficacy research.•Researchers moving from teacher efficacy as elusive to engaging its complexity.

The author reviews twelve of 111 articles focusing on teacher efficacy published in Teaching and Teacher Education since 1985. The twelve articles are placed in three sections that include a) instruments, factor analyses, and cultural influences, b) participants, contexts, and teacher instruction, and c) teacher wellness. These sections offer research and studies from various teacher efficacy investigators that share insights, understandings, and interpretations. The selected TATE articles provide a plausible (expanding) sphere of growing and developing research and studies in teacher efficacy.