This article is written by two new professors teaching at a faculty of education and follows on the completion of their first two years of teaching. They taught both core and elective courses offered in their faculty of education pre-service program. This article is a critical review of action research and teacher preparation literatures. It will address these two scholars' experiences of teaching in the pre-service program. It will use these experiences to explore specific themes in the literatures. The themes are "necessity" in the pre-service curriculum; laptop and information technology (IT) best practices, and use of guest speakers. Lastly, the paper will conclude by speaking to the utility of a comparative literature review in encouraging trans-disciplinarity rather than "siloing" amongst new faculty in teacher education programs.