Workshop Description: The 8-day Cognitive Coaching Foundation Seminar Certification provides participants with the tools to foster self-directedness, resourcefulness, and reflective thinking within students, teachers, and administrators. The training is offered at no expense to WDMESC consortium members and is ideal for administrators, teachers-leaders, mentors, and co-op specialists.
For those attending who are not part of the WDMESC Consortium, there will be a fee of $55 to cover the cost of the Cognitive Coaching Guide.
This training is eight 6-hour sessions (48 hours total). All eight (8) sessions are required, 8:30a.m. - 3:45p.m. each day and are on-site at the location below (virtual option will not be available). Lunch will be on your own. Skill practice and application, along with what happens throughout the day and every afternoon, is required for certification, so please ensure you are available the full day before registering.
Upon completion of the 8-day training and participation in the final practice coaching session on-site, participants will receive certification that they are a trained Cognitive Coach. Agendas for Days 1-4 include the Planning Conversation Map and the Reflecting Conversation Map as well as the tools of Cognitive Coaching SM. Days 5-8 provide for skill refinement and understanding of the Problem-Resolving Map. In the 8-day seminars, participants learn how to: Develop trust and rapport, develop an identity as a mediator of thinking to increase resourcefulness in self and others, utilize conversation structures for planning, reflecting and problem resolving using conversation maps, develop teachers' autonomy, self-directedness, and sense of community, develop higher levels of efficacy, consciousness, craftsmanship, flexibility and interdependence; apply four support functions: coaching, evaluating, con