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Day 1 & 2—May 1 & 2, 2008
Day 3 & 4---June 12 & 13, 2008
Presenter: Ann Pearce
Cost: $500 per person (teams of four—$1500) for four days of training
Materials and meals included in costs.
Adams State College: 2 graduate credits available
Cognitive Coaching SM is a supervisory/peer coaching
model that capitalizes upon and enhances cognitive processes. Art Costa
and Bob Garmston, the founders of Cognitive CoachingSM, define it as a
set of strategies, a way of thinking and a way of working that invites
self and others to shape and reshape their thinking and problem solving
capacities. In other words, Cognitive CoachingSM enables people to
modify their capacity to modify themselves. Cognitive CoachingSM is
based on the following four major assumptions: Thought and perception
produce all behavior. Teaching is constant decision-making. To learn
something new requires engagement and alteration in thought. Humans
continue to grow cognitively. The main tools of Cognitive CoachingSM
are: rapport, mediative questioning, response behaviors, pacing and
leading. The training focuses on learning these tools and using them
with the maps. A major focus of the training is trust and rapport.
Specifically, a person will do the following in Cognitive CoachingSM
training: practice coaching interactions that are congruent with a
variety of styles apply coaching skills which enhance the intellectual
processes of performance
Source: http://www.cognitivecoaching.com/overview.htm