Days 1-2 of the Cognitive Coaching Foundation Seminar® are being offered as a DESE-approved coaching pathway in Arkansas. Participants completing Days 1-2 will be eligible to continue Days 3-8 of the Seminar which leads to certification as a Cognitive Coach.
WHAT is COGNITIVE COACHING? Cognitive Coaching® is a research-based approach to enhancing the performance of all school staff members through coaching. Coaches support and enhance long-term sustainable growth for teachers and success for their students. Cognitive Coaching Seminars are an eight-day training in total. 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; utilize the coaching tools of pausing, paraphrasing, and posing questions; distinguish among the five forms of feedback; and use data to mediate thinking. To learn more, please visit thinkingcollaborative.com
Each 2 day session equals 12 hours of credit. Full participation, including all practice sessions and the afternoon performance assessment is required and participants should ensure they are available the full day before registering. Space is limited to 40 participants.