The mission of Cognitive Coaching is to produce
self-directed persons with the cognitive capacity for excellence both
independently and as members of a community. Research indicates that teaching
is a complex intellectual activity and that teachers who think at higher levels
produce students who are higher achieving, more cooperative, and better problem
solvers. It is the invisible skills of teaching, the thinking processes that
underlie instructional decisions, which produce superior instruction. Cognitive
Coaching is a research-based model that capitalizes upon and enhances teachers’
cognitive processes.In the eight-day Seminars, participants learn how to:
• develop trust and rapport
• develop an identity as a mediator of thinking
• utilize conversation structures for planning, reflecting and problem
resolving
• develop teachers’ autonomy and sense of community
• develop higher levels of efficacy, consciousness, craftsmanship, flexibility
and interdependence
• apply four support functions: coaching, evaluating, consulting, collaborating
• utilize the coaching tools of pausing, paraphrasing, and posing questions
• distinguish among the five forms of feedback
• use data to mediate thinking
Participants of this series are required
to attend all eight sessions of the series.
IN PERSON ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED.
If you are unable to attend a session offered at this
location, you will need to attend the same session at another location.
The registrations fee for K-12 Lenawee County educators is $250 for all 8 days. All others will be charged a fee of $500 for all 8 days.