This four-part paper on competency-based teacher education (CBTE) in Michigan contains the following sections: (a) the development of CBTE in Michigan, consisting of a chronology of events dating from 1971, and a listing of CBTE grants programs in 1974; (b) a survey of CBTE programs in Michigan, including an overview of the programs and status reports from Michigan institutions; (c) a working draft of a proposed plan for CBTE and other alternative teacher education programs, providing a CBTE definition, goal statement, and descriptions of state role, certification pattern, delivery system, support mechanism, regulation changes, and management plan; and (d) CBTE and certification definitions, with CBTE elemental definitions, criteria used to assess the degree to which programs are competency based, characteristics of competency-based instruction, a synthesis of CBTE definitions, a sample profile of the degree to which particular programs are competency based, a synthesis of CBTE certification definitions, and a state assessment model. (JCW)