Days 1-2 of the Cognitive Coaching Foundation Seminar are being offered as a DESE approved coaching pathway in Arkansas. Participants completing Day 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 8 day training in total. In the 8 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
Participants who have completed Days 1 & 2 will be eligible to continue Days 3-8 of the Seminar which leads to certification as a Cognitive Coach. Participation in all 8 days is required for certification.
Each day equals 6 hours of credit. Full participation, including all practice sessions and the afternoon assessment, is required and participants should ensure they are available the full day before registering. Space is limited to 45 participants.