ABSTRACT
Changing their teaching required the teachers to manage the positive and negative feelings associated with changing. The teachers’ talk in the programme sessions and in the interviews gave indications of the feelings involved in the change process for them-both positive and negative (Bell and Pearson, 1993d). In the ninth session of the 1991 programme, the teachers did a workshop activity on the change process, in which one of the questions in the post-box activity was about the feelings associated with the change process. The teachers’ written and anonymous responses included:
Very positive, I like the challenge.
