This report of a regional conference on Competency Based Teacher Education (CBTE) held to allow the six States in Region V (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) to share information about vocational personnel development activities and programs, consists primarily of 12 conference papers: (1) Personnel Development in Occupational Education in Illinois; (2) One State's Approach to Competency Based Teacher Education; (3) Planning for Personnel Development within a State; (4) Vocational Educators and Competence Based Education; (5) Preservice Occupational Program (POP); (6) Competency Based Industrial Teacher Education at University of Wisconsin--Stout; (7) Competencies for Professional Education in Home Economics; (8) Two-Year Inservice Teacher Preparation Program to Provide the Essential Professional Competencies Necessary for Teachers of Agriculture; (9) A Competency-Based Program for Preparing Vocational Teachers; (10) Performance/Competency Based Teaching Methods, Minnesota Style; (11) Administration by Competency (ABC); and (12) A Cautionary Appraisal of CBTE. Concluding this report are the summary reports of each State's task force sessions in which conference participants developed suggestions and recommendations to questions relative to CBTE; and a summary of a participant survey designed to assess attitudes toward varied aspects of CBTE. Copies of the program and participant survey form and a list of the conference participants, presenters, and staff are appended. (EM)