Cognitive Coaching℠
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Supporting Teacher Growth 3-Day Course
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K-12 Educators
Instructional Coaches Administrators Learn how this powerful practice of increasing cognitive processes can enhance your professional practice of instruction.
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Instructional Coaches
Administrators Learn the skills needed to support teacher growth and development using the SC Teaching Standards 4.0 Rubric.
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Cognitive Coaching℠ 8-Day Foundations Course
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Overview The 8-Day Foundations Course is a year-long leadership training course designed for administrators and instructional coaches. Participants learn the skills needed to support and enhance teacher thinking processes. The mission of Cognitive Coaching℠ 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 Coaching℠ is a research-based model that capitalizes upon and enhances teachers' cognitive processes. Learning Outcomes Meeting once per month for a total of 8-days, participants will learn to:
Cost $1,000/participant Materials and lunch are included. This course will be offered in two locations:
Classes are held 9:00 am - 4:00 pm on these days.
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Hear from Gloria Brown, 6th Grade Math Teacher at Colleton County Middle School on her experience with Cognitive Coaching℠.
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Supporting Teacher Growth 3-Day Course
Overview
Participants will learn to navigate pre-conference coaching conversations, to collect observation data to support refinement and reinforcement plans, to provide meaningful feedback, and to conduct growth producing post-conference coaching conversations.
Learning Outcomes
Day 1: "Understanding the 4.0 Rubric and the Pre-Conference"
$450/participant
Materials and lunch are included.
Group Pricing is available for District or Consortium Hosted Courses. Contact us for details.
This course will be offered in two locations:
Participants will learn to navigate pre-conference coaching conversations, to collect observation data to support refinement and reinforcement plans, to provide meaningful feedback, and to conduct growth producing post-conference coaching conversations.
Learning Outcomes
Day 1: "Understanding the 4.0 Rubric and the Pre-Conference"
- Understand high quality teaching as defined by the SC. Teaching Standards 4.0 Rubric.
- Identify methods to collect classroom data to support the SC Teaching Standards 4.0 Rubric.
- Increased craftsmanship in coaching skills during pre-conference conversations with teachers (listening for understanding).
- Recognize how four support functions (coaching, consulting, collaborating, evaluating) promote teacher growth.
- Differentiate between coaching feedback and evaluative feedback.
- Use classroom data to provide meaningful feedback and determine refinement and reinforcement plans.
- Recognize strategies for increasing teacher consciousness and self-directedness around refinement and reinforcement areas.
- Increased craftsmanship in coaching skills during post-conference conversations with teachers (questioning to support growth).
- Understand how to develop professional growth plans to support teacher refinement areas.
$450/participant
Materials and lunch are included.
Group Pricing is available for District or Consortium Hosted Courses. Contact us for details.
This course will be offered in two locations:
Goose Creek, SC
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Greenwood, SC
Wednesday, July 24, 2018
Thursday, July 25, 2018
Friday, July 26, 2018
Wednesday, July 24, 2018
Thursday, July 25, 2018
Friday, July 26, 2018
Classes are held 9:00 am - 3:00 pm on these days.
