This paper reports the findings of a two-year computer literacy inservice project for high school teachers in various departments. A description is given of strategies used in designing and developing an inservice education program within a particular social system that had its own norms and expectations about learning technology. Theorizing that…

This study of 18 high school teachers focuses on personal dimensions of the change process and on teacher concerns about using microcomputers in the classroom. Stages of Concern Questionnaire and interviews were used to design a staff development model consisting of inservice activities that addressed teacher's concerns about computers.…

Teacher concerns about introducing microcomputers into the classroom were studied. Seventy-eight teachers at elementary (n=24), junior high (n=7), and senior high (n=47) school levels completed the Stages of Concern Questionnaire. Concerns developed in a hierarchical order, from self to task to impact. Inservice activities matching concern areas…