Bottom Line: Working with individuals and giving them tools to help them increase their performance and resourcefulness.Book: Cognitive Coaching: A Foundation for Renaissance Schools by ArthurL. Costa
Outcomes of Training:
- Understanding of the essence of Cognitive Coaching
- Increased consciousness and craftsmanship in applying interpersonal communication skills to develop trust and rapport
- Understanding of the power of a structured professional conversation
- Understanding Cognitive Coaching as one of the four support functions (Coaching, Collaborating, Consulting, Evaluating)
Declarative knowledge = knowledge that is stored inside your head
Procedural knowledge = demonstrating what you know
(Ex: Parallel parking: Declarative knowledge is knowing how to do it, Procedural knowledge is showing how you can do it)
Model
List what you observe about:
• The interaction
• The coach's behavior
• The coachee's thinking
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-How has thinking changed?
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As a group, what did we notice?
- Listening intently
- Restated what was said
- Didn't offer advice
- Conversation was structured, but adaptive
- Restating message/Asking question pattern
- Affirmations
- Rephrasing caused deeper thought
- Acknowledgement of emotion
- Paraphrasing used terms that weren't directly stated
- Questions created a sense of beginning and end
- Reflective question at the end
*This is cognitive coaching!
*Cognitive coaching isn't to be used when you already know where you want your students to go.
*It is used to produce self-directed people with cognitive capacity for excellence
*Cognitive coaching isn't to be used when you already know where you want your students to go.
*It is used to produce self-directed people with cognitive capacity for excellence
A Metaphor for Coaching (pg. 16)
Taking a valued person from where he/she is to where he/she wants to go.
Propositions of Cognitive Coaching
- All behavior is produced by thought and perception.
- Teaching is constant decision-making (400-1,000 decisions a day)
- To learn something new involves engagement and alteration in thought
- Will need to engage with prior experiences
- Humans continue to grow cognitively
- Growth mindset
Cognitive Coaching Process
- Coaching Strategies
- Internal Thinking Process
- Observable Behaviors
- Enhanced Performance
What drives the thinking of a Cognitive Coach?
- Help develop Self-Directness
- Self-managing (ex: setting goals)
- Self-monitoring (ex: adjusting goals)
- Self-modifying (ex: plotting success to future goals)
- Help build cognitive capacity
- What to focus on
- When to focus
- In what ways to focus
- Considering people as individuals and members of a community
- Holonomy (The study of the interactive parts of a whole)
- We exist as individuals, but we belong to many different groups
How did you know how to do that? (Great question for fostering self-directedness)
Holonomy and the Five States of Mind:
- Efficacy
- Teachers who believe they can teach every child
- Teachers who are willing to put in the work to make it happen
- Flexibility
- Teacher that has options
- Can acknowledge and respect and empathize with diverse perspectives
- Won't just stay on one path
- Interdependence
- Understanding relationships are incredibly important
- (Team work, PLC, grade level work, etc.)
- Consciousness
- Awareness of your thoughts, feelings, viewpoints, behaviors
- Aware of the effects your thoughts, feelings, viewpoints, and behaviors have on others
- Need a
- Craftsmanship
Holonomous People
What is it like when a person draws on the states of mind to become more holonomous?
Efficacy without consciousness = arrogance
Goal of Cognitive Coaching Training
Develop an identity and capacity as a mediator of thinking.
A mediator is one who extends invitations, not mandates.
A mediator is one who is NOT a solver of another's problems.
A mediator is one who shines a spotlight of awareness upon data in the environment and interacts to support self-directed learning.
Trust
When trust exists in a relationship, I (see/hear/feel/do)...
Consider the factors that promote trust...
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Three kinds of trust:
- Organic trust
- We often have that with our kids. We just have a built-in trust.
- Contractual trust
- Ex: Mortgage
- Relational trust
- Teacher-Student, Adminstrator-Teacher, etc.
Rapport
Trust = deeper connection
Rapport = more surface level
Both are related to personal connections
Mirror Neurons: Monkey See-Monkey Do
Trust = deeper connection
Rapport = more surface level
Both are related to personal connections
Mirror Neurons: Monkey See-Monkey Do
Tie us to other people's actions as well as feelings.
Mirror Neuron system is the most basic system that causes connection.
Book:
Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others by Marco Iacoboni
Elements of Rapport: (All can be conciously applied in order to develop rapport)
- Posture
- Gesture
- Tonality
- Language
- Breathing
When to Consciously Apply Rapport:
- Anticipate tension
- Think about the room setup. Could you have a round table?
- Tension emerges
- Think about physical location- Is something between you (desk, table)
- Maybe even start mirroring body language
- Make sure body language conveys, "I care about this."
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Layers of Coaching
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Layers of Self
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Information you will volunteer
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Information you will volunteer
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Information you will provide if asked
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Information you will provide if asked
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Information that is intimate
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Private self
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Unknown self
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Four Support Functions
- Coaching
- transform effectiveness of decision-making, mental models, thoughts, and perceptions
- habituate reflection
- Collaborating
- form ideas, approaches, solutions, and focus for inquiry
- Consulting
- Curriculum policies, procedures, technical support
- Evaluating
- Conforming to a set of standards
When offering support to someone, make sure Cognitive Coaching is the default support. Make sure you don't slip into the consulting role and fix the problem for the person. First, start with questioning. ("So you're not sure how you want to...; What might be some of the things you've considered?")
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