A two-year project to systematize the occupational teacher approval record-keeping and planning procedures for the Massachusetts Office of Professional Development (OPD) for the Division of Occupational Education is described. A project overview discusses the problems of the system and objectives arrived at to solve them, including the improvement of record keeping, monitoring systems, and Local Education Agency (LEA) information; determination of State manpower supply and demand; and improvement of teacher-training programs. Eleven project tasks were formulated to achieve these objectives and are described in terms of methods, results, figures and charts, and related materials: (1) survey all LEA personnel; (2) improve the record keeping system; (3) improve data needed for OPD planning; (4) provide uniform credentials; (5) monitor the teacher approval factor; (6) develop listing of available instructors; (7) rewrite OPD policies for approval fields; (8) interface approval system with data bank; (9) increase number of minority instructors; (10) establish legal policies; (11) survey demand for vocational instructors. Appended material provides supplementary information regarding project tasks, schedules, teacher qualifications, and expenditures. (LH)