This article focuses on how professional identity of teacher educators can be portrayed in a systematic way both on a cognitive level and an emotional level. The authors used a narrative–biographical instrument. In order to construct this method, eight teacher educators reflected on their professional development, using the self-confrontation method, resulting in self-narratives.The findings of the study indicate teacher educators’ meaningful experiences can be portrayed in a systematic way using identity components such as job motivation, task perception, task-feeling, self-image and self-feeling.