This paper describes a project at Indiana University initiated to develop research-based skills associated with instructional clarity in prospective secondary school teachers. The specific courses targeted for the project include an educational psychology course, a general methods course, and four special methods courses. Each course involves a field experience component. The focus of the project is on this component as the point at which skill training of the kind envisioned most appropriately fits. This research-based program of teacher education is based upon three levels of educational research that: (1) demonstrate relationships between teacher behavior and pupil outcome; (2) focus upon how teacher behavior skills can be acquired by trainees; and (3) concentrate on conditions under which teaching skills and behaviors acquired in a training setting are used in the classroom. The instructional medium chosen for the project was interactive video, where a computer and video player are combined. The first part of this paper describes institutional limitations in the project and the guidelines used for selecting relevant literature. The second section deals with the process of extrapolating a set of teaching skills from the literature. The final section presents a model for facilitating the adoption and implementation of the products emerging from the project. References are included. (JD)