The invention relates to thulium-doped tellurate glass doubly-clad optical fiber and a preparation method thereof. Thulium-doped tellurate glass used as a fiber core comprises the following ingredients in mole percentage: 40 to 90 mol% of TeO2, 5 to 40 mol% of WO3, 0 to 5 mol% of Nb2O5, 0 to 5 mol% of BaO, 0 to 14.9 mol% of La2O3, 0 to 20 mol% of GeO2, 0 to 5 mol% of R2O (R is Li, Na, K), 0 to 5 mol% of P2O5 and 0.1 to 5 mol% of Tm2O3. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: preparing the fiber core, inner cladding glass and outer cladding glass by utilizing a fusion method, preparing an optical fiber prefabricated rod by adopting a rod-in-tube technique, and drawing twice by adopting an appropriate wiredrawing process to obtain the doubly-clad tellurate glass optical fiber, wherein the loss at 1.3mu m is less than 2.9dB/m. The doubly-clad tellurate glass optical fiber has favorable anti-devitrification stability, higher glass-transition temperature and softening temperature and lower thermal expansion coefficient compared with common tellurate glass and accords with the single mold transmission condition. Proved by experiments, the optical fiber can realize output of 2nm-class laser under the pumping of an 800nm commercial laser diode, and the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of a laser spectrum reaches 15nm.