ED X379 - Cognitive Coaching: Developing Self-Directed Individuals
Course Description
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.
Learner Outcomes
In the multi-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: 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
Notes
INSTRUCTOR CONTACT INFORMATION (818) 878-5219; Ryan Gleason, rgleason@lvusd.org
CONTACT AVAILABILITY: M-F, 8-5
METHODOLOGY (i.e. lecture, small group exercises, field activities): This will be an in-person course with homework and reading outside of class.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators
PREREQUISITES: None
TOTAL CLASSROOM HOURS AND TOTAL UNITS GRANTED UPON COMPLETION OF COURSE: 60 Hours, 6 Quarter Units