This research examined the images of teaching that students early in their teacher certification program had about teaching and teacher roles. These images portrayed students' expectations of teaching and teachers and aspirations for their future careers. A group of 33 student teachers from a foundational course in educational psychology participated in reflective activities throughout the semester. They designed a creative representation of teaching or of themselves as teachers, focusing on what they had learned about educational psychology and what they had come to understand about teaching over the course of the semester. The representations were grouped into one of four domains of images of teaching: representations of private personal experiences in school or childhood; representations of personal struggles in choosing to teach; representations of good teaching; and representations of passion for content specialty. The creative representations of teaching varied in style, type, and depth. Collages and poems were the creation type most frequently represented, followed by artwork of various forms. Students discussed their goals as part and parcel of the experiences they had in school themselves. Although some experiences were much more deeply rooted in a personal and emotional nature, all of the students based their images of teaching on their own personal experiences as students. (Contains 24 references.) (SM)