This project, associated with the Institute for Training Directors of Teacher Education Reform Programs, focused on selected realities of current efforts that provide alternative programs for teacher education. This report contains theoretical, analytical, and practical models, discussions, and case studies that should be valuable to educational organizations contemplating change. Topics included in the report address seven critical areas of teacher education reform: a) institutional cooperation between and among diverse universities; b) the role of planning through selected planning techniques and strategies; c) a model to evaluate and compare teacher education components and concepts; d) an analysis of the role of human relations training in teacher education; e) a model to assess personnel and their potential for change; f) a critique of competency-based certification and performance-based teacher education; and g) case studies of program development and consortia efforts aimed at developing performance-oriented certification in the State of Washington. (Author)