For the use of team leaders responsible for guiding teacher interns through a two-year, on-the-job training program, this document provides a framework of essential competencies and teaching skills to be achieved before beginning teaching. Five generic teaching skills are identified: diagnosis, prescription, classroom management, instruction materials and resource utilization, and human relations. Objectives in each skill are described. Basic competencies in the areas of oral language instruction, reading instruction, and mathematics instruction are listed. (JD)