A small, self-run reflective group (Dnipro, since 2022) survived blackouts and war by rotating topics and formats, and by being honest when a format failed. Supervision and peer ‘intervision’ are models from psychology.
A year of meetings (2023)
- Re-union: where are we, should we meet, topic-based or person-based format?
- “Synergy Spotlight”: one member’s burning question, group input. It “did not work as well as I had imagined” (the contexts were too different).
- AI in language learning: members share their own use.
- Facilitator-less “courses” meeting with pre-meeting questions (What course? What helped your job? What didn’t?).
- Teaching teenagers.
- “One Activity Swap Shop”, where an “activity” can be a task, resource, lesson format or quote.
Supervision and intervision (2023)
Intervision = peers share challenges, insights and techniques. Polosatova wants supervision-style support for trainers in career transition.
Apply in my context (Claude)
- A ready template for a cross-branch Rahimov teacher group: a monthly 60-minute meeting, a rotating format, pre-meeting questions. Start with “One Activity Swap Shop”, the lowest-risk format.
Connections
Sustained CPD with communities of practice · Coaching vs mentoring - teachers showing up for teachers · Unplanned CPD counts - ask what else you did instead