New Zealand began in the late 1990s to build a teacher quality assurance system based on teachers’ professional standards, by establishing an internal connection between teachers’ professional standards and teacher preparation, teacher register and certificate, and in-service teacher quality assurance. New Zealand has developed some characteristics and accumulated some experiences, which include strengthening the consistency of the quality assurance system based on teachers’ professional standards; maintaining continuous interaction, dialogue, and dynamic adjustment between teachers’ professional standards and various safeguard measures; paying attention to the cooperation of multiple stakeholders, taking teachers’ professional organizations as the leading factor.However, at present, New Zealand still faces some challenges and problems, such as whether to formulate universal or prescriptive standards and how to achieve a better balance between the regulatory and developmental functions of standards in the implementation of standards.