Personnel Development for High School Information Studies Teachers:

From the Results of a Survey Conducted for Teacher Training Institutes

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to consider the appropriate ways of personnel development for teachers of Information Studies in high schools by means of questionnaires for teacher training institutes. The result of this survey was analyzed from the four points of (1) the training institutes' core activities, (2) coordination among the teacher training institutes, high schools and school boards, (3) the significance of Information Studies as a subject, and (4) the contents of Information Studies in three stages of planning, implementation, and evaluation/feedback of the teacher training. In conclusion, we found that the measures to grasp the effectiveness of teacher training were insufficient, that the coordination and feedback by the institutions were still insufficient, that the results of the training were evaluated insufficiently, and that the contents of teacher training did not appropriately respond to the degree of necessity of lessons of Information Studies.