This document, which provides a perspective in planning competency-based teacher education programs that is different and future-directed in its approach, is divided into three parts, the first of which is a presentation of Jantsch's model of teacher education. In this model teacher education is viewed in two dimensions: (a) horizontal, representing a continuum of time delineating past, present, and future, and (b) vertical, which is divided into the three parts of program development--policies, strategies, and operations. The second part of the document describes the application of the model in designing a competency-based teacher education program for social science majors at Illinois State University. The third part of the document is a brief paper on the use of the Delphi technique in the forecasting phase of the development of a competency-based teacher education program. (HMD)