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