Collegial discussion task: How can you support each other in developing as academic teachers?

The climate or culture in the collegial group when it comes to allowing and supporting the individual members’ developments in various aspects, including developing as teachers, is of paramount importance for how this can happen. Therefore, it might be beneficial to openly discuss these matters together.

These might be sensitive and intimate issues to discuss. We therefore urge you to be respectful and open minded towards each other.

It might be a good idea to, during your discussion, agree upon and to take notes to save, which you can return to later when continuing your discussions. In these you might agree upon and sketch how you want to move forward, and what you want shall be significant in how you form and develop as a collegial group of individual academics and academic teachers.

• How much do you know about each others personal academic identities and preferences? If you want to, you can share your thoughts from the previous Individual reflection task with each other. How does it come together?
  
  
• What implications does this have for how you form a flourishing teaching and learning environment together? How do you perceive a promoting level of tolerance and recognition of the differences and variances within the group? How can you support each other in order to develop as academic teachers, in the best way possible?
  
  
• How can you make use of the variance within your collegial group in order to allow for all of you to develop as academic teachers, in order to be able to provide high qualitative teaching and learning for your students?