The Competency Oriented Personalized Education Program (COPE) was developed by the Washington State University education faculty as a model of a competency-based and individualized teacher preparation program to meet the needs of a dynamic social enterprise. The essence of the COPE program is a learning model which has three basic stages: knowledge, simulation, and application. Detailed planning, program reviewing, and piloting of the program led to systematic development and a basic innovation in the teacher education program at the university. Content and process are carefully articulated so that the students who are enrolled in the program know what they are attempting to do and why they are doing it. Field experiences are provided to prospective teachers over an extended period of time so that they may have appropriate apprentice and intern level experiences. Evaluation to date has indicated that students and instructors approve of the program and that state universities may develop their own programs. Nevertheless, implementing such a program totally would require fiscal support beyond normal budgetary authorization. (Author/JA)