Teachers’ Courses: What Do Teachers Want?

The ideas of teacher educators and teachers on in‐service training courses do not necessarily concur. This, in the eye of the author, is one of the reasons for the rather general disappointment with in‐service training among teachers in Italy. A small survey among secondary school teachers was made in Ivrea, Italy, by one of their colleagues, who took part in the 1977 ATEE conference in Trieste. The teachers were asked for their preferences as to the time of the courses, subjects and method. The presentation of the results is not only a quantitative one; the material offered enough possibilities to illustrate the statistics of this small scale survey.