Since the late 1980s, driven by the demand for improving the quality of education, many countries have developed professional standards or competence frameworks for teachers. However, international experience tells us that whether teachers’ professional standards can achieve the expected purpose depends first on what kind of standards we develop and how we implement them.In addition, some other factors also affect the effectiveness of the standards, such as the purpose and functional orientation, the form and structure, the developers and developing methods, the implementing methods, and the supporting systems of the standards.There are some problems in China’s current Teachers’ Professional Standards, such as the lack of a precise functional orientation, the lack of a real effective hierarchical structure, and the lack of a support system for the implementation. In the future, we should revise the Teachers’ Professional Standards based on the function of development orientation while taking into account the function of evaluation. We should pay attention to the revision process and methods of the standards and promote the effective communication and implementation of the standards. We should also build a teacher education quality assurance system based on the Teachers’ professional standards.