Transformative Talk assists an aspirant Coach in building their personal capabilities. It draws upon each of the insights and experiences of Cognitive Coaching Training Associates and Agency Trainers who are making it work. Each chapter at varying degrees reflects personal journeys shared with the explicit intention to assist you, the reader, in making connections to your own work and your growth as a coach.
The material has been strategically selected to support educators who fulfill a variety of different roles. You will find information, insights and strategies to assist your growth from a variety of perspectives. These include reflections to assist classroom teachers, school leaders, and principals, support staff, coaches, systems leaders, and researchers.
It encourages you to unleash the power of Cognitive Coaching for the students and colleagues you work with and in your ongoing goal to build both your identity and capacity as a mediator of thinking.
Talking is critical to the complex, challenging, and intrinsically satisfying work of educators. This book provides the reader with the opportunity to continue transforming their talk so they can transform the thinking of others in the process of education.
Transformative Talk assists an aspirant Coach in building their personal capabilities. It draws upon each of the insights and experiences of Cognitive Coaching Training Associates and Agency Trainers who are making it work. Each chapter at varying degrees reflects personal journeys shared with the explicit intention to assist you, the reader, in making connections to your own work and your growth as a coach.
The material has been strategically selected to support educators who fulfill a variety of different roles. You will find information, insights and strategies to assist your growth from a variety of perspectives. These include reflections to assist classroom teachers, school leaders, and principals, support staff, coaches, systems leaders, and researchers.
It encourages you to unleash the power of Cognitive Coaching for the students and colleagues you work with and in your ongoing goal to build both your identity and capacity as a mediator of thinking.
Talking is critical to the complex, challenging, and intrinsically satisfying work of educators. This book provides the reader with the opportunity to continue transforming their talk so they can transform the thinking of others in the process of education.
Foreword
Introduction: The Power of Cognitive Coaching
1.The Power of Cognitive Coaching, Gavin Grift
2.We Don’t Fix Teachers: Managing Outside Expectations and the
Integrity of Cognitive Coaching, Carrie Usui Johnson and John
Matich
3.Aligning Cognitive Coaching to a Canadian Leadership Framework,
Denise Overall and Penny Ballagh
4.Refining the Art of Collaboration: Supporting the Work of School
Teams, Shannon King
5.Diving into the Deep End, Abigail Graham
6.Three Peas, Please: Supporting Schools with the Pattern of Pause,
Paraphrase, and Pose a Question, Mylene Keipp
7.The Power of Video in Reflective Conversations, Michael T. Neall
and Donna B. Wilder
8.Cognitive Coaching and Apprenticing Novice Urban Teachers,
Marguerethe Jaede
9.An Investment in the Future: Supporting the Work of Novice
Teachers, Jennifer Cunneen
10.Cognitive Coaching: Reflections from the Field, Jolene
Flock-Lockwood
Gavin Grift is director of professional learning for Hawker Brownlow Professional Learning Solutions in Australia. He is also a global outreach consultant and training associate to Thinking Collaborative, home of both Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools.
Becoming a Cognitive Coach requires a commitment of your resources:
time, mental energy and openness to transforming your identity as a
helping person. Is it worth it? You bet! This book contains stories
of the learning journeys of practitioners and the impact that
Cognitive Coaching has had on staff members individually and
collectively, on school culture, students and, of course on
themselves.
*Arthur L. Costa, professor emeritus, California State University;
co-author of Cognitive Coaching: Developing Self-Directed Leaders
and Learners*
Some synonyms for the word “transform are: change, modify, adjust,
vary, amend, revise, rework. This book, true to its name, does all
these things for Cognitive Coaching. It takes the basic principles
and practices created by Art Costa and Bob Garmston and learned in
the Foundation Seminar, and transforms them into applications that
range from teacher-student interactions in the classrooms to
principal-teacher interactions in a school, to district and
state/province level interactions that impact tens of thousands of
students and teachers. We learn how using Cognitive Coaching with
novice teachers and combining coaching with video feedback with
veterans serves a range of generations of teachers. We understand
how the maps and tools of Cognitive Coaching influence thinking in
a variety of socio-economic settings and how just taking away the
need to 'fix' others truly transforms both the coach and the
coachee. Gavin Grift’s introduction and personal journey of
coaching serves as a catalyst for expanding the infinite ways in
which this seminal work is transforming.
*Jane Ellison, executive co-director, Thinking Collaborative*
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