Cognitive Coaching Seminars

This year, I had the opportunity to be trained in Cognitive Coaching through The Thinking Collaborative. We spent eight seminar days learning 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,and collaborating
• utilize the coaching tools of pausing, paraphrasing, and posing questions
• distinguish among the five forms of feedback
• use data to mediate thinking

After each seminar, I was able to immediately incorporate new strategies into my interpersonal interactions with colleagues and with students. This was one of the most useful trainings I have received by far. I would highly recommend it to any student affairs professional, teacher, and other people who work with people.