As part of the quality development of teaching and supervision at RUC, UniPæd offers to help institutions to launch collegial intervision. Collegial intervision is a tool for developing teachers' and teacher groups' teaching and/or supervision skills. Departments and courses can obtain many benefits from starting a process of collegial supervision:

• Collegial intervision transforms teachers into active and contributing partners in a project where one of the goals is to highlight, develop and share the knowledge and experiences they gain from working with the students. In this way, the teachers become actively involved in developing the quality of the teaching and supervision.
• Collegial intervision is based on the exchange of experience based on observations and dialogue about the teaching activities, and it is therefore a means by which the strategic quality objectives can be specified on the basis of the real teaching situation.
• Collegial intervision can be used to develop social communities and in many cases, working partnerships are established that collaborate more extensively concerning education and supervision than in the past.
• A space is created for the exchange and development of collegial confidentiality, which positively affects the working culture and environment. This also allows the colleagues to train their dialogic skills, which also positively impacts other activities in the department.

The method

The method involves colleagues of equal status observing and discussing each other's work in a systematic and agreed way. Focus points that the teacher wishes to improve are observed. It is therefore the teacher who will be observed who also defines what exactly is to be observed. The work is carried out in groups of 3-4 participants. Collegial intervision opens up the teaching environment to colleagues, and it is therefore a vulnerable situation which requires mutual trust. Confidence is built up through working with exercises and through the first supervisory discussions. Once trust is established, this provides good opportunities for cooperation, knowledge sharing and knowledge building in both a pedagogical and personal context.

Podcast: Three teachers talk about what they achieved from their participation in Collegial Intervision.

Information

• Read more about collegiate intervision, the starting point for the method and the method itself here
• You are also welcome to contact Sidsel Winther, special advisor at UniPæd, by mail: sidwin(at)ruc.dk or by tel. 3146 2006