In the fall of 1973, the Montana Association of Teachers of English surveyed 750 junior and senior high school English teachers in Montana, to gather information about their current teaching assignments, their preparation to teach, their current needs for teaching, and the priorities they saw for services or programs in the state university system. Almost half of the teachers responded. A second survey of needs, conducted in the fall of 1976, confirmed and updated the findings of the first survey. Both surveys led to the conclusion that college English programs generally seem to have disregarded actual teaching needs, and teachers seem not to have been trained to relate, adapt, or integrate the disparate materials and ideas they encountered in their course work. Among the needs most frequently mentioned by teachers who responded to the surveys were better workshops, new materials (primarily in the areas of composition and reading), extension courses for graduate credit, realistic summer course offerings, better internships and methods programs, media courses, and professors who know the school situation. (LJR)