This ethnography asks the question, what does learning to teach mean to
student teachers and to those around them in an exam-driven rural school
in China? The author writes of the process of using the assessment as a
tool for teacher learning, understanding disadvantaged students in the
community of practice, and of beginning teachers seeking their
identities. She offers a perspective of learning to teach with
assessment instead of for assessment, and examines how it shapes the
learn-to-teach experiences.