Steps for the development of guidelines intended to facilitate the application of standards to teacher education programs during institutional self-study and accreditation processes are offered for the consideration of professional education associations and learned societies representing the various disciplines. The recommended steps are: an analysis of standards and evaluative criteria, a search of all available data on these standards, the identification of the basic issues, the drafting of tentative guidelines, a synthesis of reaction and criticism to these tentative guidelines into the form of a second draft with a strong point of view, a feasibility study of the second draft, and submission, after final revision, to the association's constituency. The resulting guidelines are expected to be most useful when they (1) are developed as a resource for institutions in the process of improving their teacher education programs and for members of visitation teams as they assess the quality of institutional programs; (2) give consideration to the format, terminology, and substance of accreditation standards; (3) and are revised and updated periodically. (SM)