Course Description

• 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.
• Lead Learners (Facilitators): Kristin Drury | Kristie Krier
• Credit(s) and Type: 20 Hours Relicensure

*Learning Guides will need to be purchased by participants. Each costs $40.00

Target Audience

• Admin/Pro-Tech
• Certified Staff
• Open to Substitute Teachers =  Not at this time
• Open to Student Teachers = Yes 
• Open to Charter School Staff = Yes 
  • Charter Certified

Date, Time & Location

• Date: August 23, 30 and September 13, 20, 27
• Time: 4:00 - 8:00 PM
• Location: Cantril Gym (Links to an external site.) | 312 Cantril Street, Castle Rock 80104

Course Outcomes

Here are the outcomes for the course:

• 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, collaborating
• Utilize the coaching tools of pausing, paraphrasing, and posing questions
• Distinguish among the five forms of feedback
• Use data to mediate thinking