Course Description:

Cognitive Coaching is a research-based model that provides a collection of strategies and tools that:

• enhances teacher effectiveness;
  
• cultivates good questioning skills;
• improves communication;
• enables informed decision-making.
  

Cognitive Coaching was developed in 1984 by Art Costa and Bob Garmston. It is a model that enables teachers to think deeply about their teaching and reflect on their practice, thus continually improving it.

Rather than serving as an expert, the coach helps the educator to become self-managing, self-monitoring, and self-modifying by shining a spotlight on their thinking as they plan, reflect, and resolve educational issues.

Teachers who are trained in Cognitive Coaching become more resourceful, think in more complex ways, are more satisfied with their choice of teaching as a profession, collaborate more, and increase in efficacy. In addition, student test scores increase and school cultures become more professional.

About the Instructor

Lynn Sawyer is Director of Professional Development for the Washoe County School District in Reno, Nevada, a district of 83 K-12 schools and 3,700 teachers. She is also the Director of the Northwest Regional Professional Development Program, established by the Nevada State Legislature to provide intensive professional development for teachers and administrators in three counties in implementing the Nevada Student Academic Standards.

Evaluations

Last summer, this course received an average course rating of 4.50 and an average instructor rating of 4.70

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