Professional Learning
Cognitive Coaching Coming to GLCA
Cognitive Coaching
Cognitive Coaching Seminars® are an eight-day training generally conducted over an 18–24 month period of time. Agendas for Days 1–4 include the Planning Conversation Map and the Reflecting Conversation Map as well as the tools of Cognitive CoachingSM. Days 5–8 provide for skill refinement and understanding of the Problem-Resolving Map.
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Days 1-4 Set for GLCA
All staff are required to participate in the Cognitive Coaching training held at GLCA. We have a handful of veterans who have completed the training previously and will be an asset to the rest of the group. The first two training dates will be May 28th and May 29th. Please clear your calendars on these dates. Days three and four will be held on June 11th and June 12th. Teachers not working the summer are highly encouraged to attend and will be given comp time for the 19-20 school year if in attendance. In order to be a certified Cognitive Coach you will have to attend all 8 training sessions in the series. We will cover this in more detail in our Monday Morning Meetings over the next couple of weeks.
About Cognitive Coaching Seminars®
The mission of Cognitive CoachingSM 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 CoachingSM is a research-based model that capitalizes upon and enhances teachers’ cognitive processes.
You Will 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