Cognitive Coaching

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Cognitive Coaching

• Increasing Student Learning Through Building
  Young Teachers Efficacy
• Bruce Joyce Beverly Showers
• Mark Reardon - Centre Pointe Education

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Our Supreme GoalImproved Quality of Student
Learning

• Teacher Efficacy is Positively Correlated to
  Student Achievement!

Q.S.L.
Teacher Efficacy
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- Building Efficacy -There is a Formula!
E C3(C1C2)e

• E Efficacy
• C1 Confidence
• Willingness to take risks
• Confidence by itself is arrogance!
• C2 Competence
• Skill Knowledge
• C3 Consistency
• A set protocol is constantly followed
• e Effort
• Amount of quality work applied

Efficacy Cycle
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Get in the Zone!Get Into The Coaching Zone
Before Building Efficacy
Unconsciously Competent

• In The Coaching Zone
• Young teachers are in prime condition to
• Learn New Theory
• View a Model Example
• Positive or Negative
• Practice/Emulate the Model
• Receive Feedback
• Extremely Important!

Consciously Competent
The Coaching Zone
Consciously Incompetent
Unconsciously Incompetent
We want all of our preservice teachers to move to
the level of Unconscious Competence! Doing the
right thing without even having to think about it!
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Essential Elements Coaching Model

• Theory -
• Research, Knowledge, Contextual Experience
• Model -
• An Ideal Example
• Rehearsal -
• The MUST practice and experience what was
  learned!
• Feedback -
• Your time spent working with student teachers
  giving Efficacious Feedback!

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Efficacious Feedback

• Priming The Pump! (Pure Manipulation!)
• T.A.G.
• Task
• Attribute
• Goal
• Virtues for Educators
• Virtues Acknowledgement
• Virtues Reminders
• Virtues Corrections

• Three Ways to Make Your Point
• Paraphrasing
• What I hear you saying is
• Builds rapport! Proves you are listening!
• Clarifying
• What do you mean by
• Tell me more about
• Creates common ground!
• Mediating
• What would it sound/look like if
• Changing the action, not the person! Objective
  not personal!

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Review Practice

• Questions?

10,000 Pyramid Card Vocabulary Teacher Efficacy,
Q.S.L., Competence, Confidence, Consistency,
Effort, Unconsciously Competent, Consciously
Competent, Consciously Incompetent, Unconsciously
Incompetent, Theory, Model, Rehearsal, Feedback,
Task, Attribute, Goal, Virtues Statement, Virtues
Reminder, Virtues Correction, Paraphrasing,
Clarifying, Mediating