This report identifies present and future problems confronting Tennessee's teachers and offers proposals for responding effectively to these problems. A brief overview of trends in the teaching profession provides a preface to reports on: (1) findings of the teacher compensation subcommittee; (2) findings of the teacher training subcommittee; (3) findings of the instructional development subcommittee; (4) the proposed teacher evaluation system, including development of assessment instruments, recommendations for scoring procedures, proposed competencies and indicators, selection of applicants for evaluation, and a critique of the career teacher proposal; (5) projected costs of proposals; (6) summary of recommendations, and (7) a minority report. The appendixes include a paper on"Teacher Compensations and Career Ladders: Policy Implications from Research," as well as recommendations on the organization of the interim certification commission, the administrator/supervisor evaluation system, and proposed legislation. (JD)