Foundation Seminar ®
Hosted by West KY Educational Cooperative and The Center for Education Leadership
Cognitive CoachingSM is a supervisory/peer coaching model that capitalizes upon and enhances
cognitive processes. Art Costa and Bob Garmston, the founders of Cognitive CoachingSM, define it as a
set of strategies, a way of thinking, and a way of working that invites self and others to shape and reshape
their thinking and problem solving capacities. In other words, it enables people to modify their capacity
to modify themselves. 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.
During this eight-day seminar, participants will learn how to:
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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
Agenda
Day 1 – July 7, 2016
• Understanding the essence of Cognitive
Coaching SM
• Mission of Cognitive Coaching SM
• Five States of Mind
• Trust (Bryk & Schneider, Tschannen-Moran
research)
• Rapport
• Planning Conversation
Day 2 - July 8, 2016
• Research on Coaching & Cognitive
Coaching SM
• Coaching Capabilities
• Pausing and Wait Time
• Eye Movement (Jensen research)
• Planning Conversation Map
Day 3 – August 25, 2016
• Mediative Questions
• Elements of an Invitational Question
• Reflecting Conversation Map
Day 4 – August 26, 2016
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Categories of Feedback
Four Support Functions
Role of Data
Reflecting with a Meta-Coach
Day 5 – September 8, 2016
• Review and Reflection
• Reflecting Into Planning Map
• Filters of Perception
- representational systems
- cognitive styles
- educational belief systems
Day 6 – September 9, 2016
• Rear and Forward Filters
• BMIRS (behavior manifestations of
internal response states)
• Cognitive Shift
• Introducing Problem-Resolving Map
Day 7 – September 22, 2016
• Problem-Resolving Map
• Developing a Repertoire of Emotion
Words
• Elements of the Pace
• Going for the Goal
• Pacing Practice
Day 8 – September 23, 2016
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Listening for States of Mind
Crafting Meditative Questions
Trios Practice Problem Resolving
Pairs Practice Problem Resolving
WKEC and KASA/CEL will host this 8-Day Cognitive Coaching Seminar on the dates listed above.
Location: WKEC Conference Center, 435 Outlet Avenue, Eddyville, KY
Time(s): 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Cost:
$800 per participant
To register, visit www.wkec.org and click on the title of the seminar under Professional Development.
Note: Participants must register for the entire 8-day series.