The century-old plan is education-oriented; the education plan is teacher-oriented. The continuous deepening of educational reform has made remarkable achievements in the construction of teacher education discipline in my country; as the attention of teacher education research continues to rise, it is urgent to grasp the trend of teacher education discipline research. Using 584 teacher education research documents published in CNKI core journals from 2000 to 2021 as the data source, the CiteSpace software was used to analyze the literature data visually and explore the frontiers and hotspots of domestic teacher education research. Data analysis found that: the volume of research papers on teacher education is on the rise, and normal colleges and universities undertake most of the tasks of teacher education and scientific research; teacher education research hotspots include "teacher professional development", "ideological and political "Core Competencies", etc.