Cognitive Coaching Essay

Describe: Cognitive Coaching is an approach to enhance teacher performance, to help them become self-direct reflective. As educators we all have resources that enable us to grow and change from within. The person being coached evaluates his/her own work not the coach, the coach acts mentors and uses questioning strategies to help the person being coached work through ideas or lessons using problem solving techniques, planning and reflection. Cognitive coaching should be non-threating and full of dialogue.

Compare: Cognitive Coaching is similar to the Teacher Evaluation many of us go through each year. As in the evaluation process you have a pre and post conference with an observation in between. Teacher evaluations are an evaluative
I set up coaching sessions with my teachers and then go through the process of pre/post conferences with an observation in the middle. I usually try to see each teacher at least twice a month and sometimes I pick what I want to see, especially if we have had professional development on a piece of the framework or I let them select the topic.
Cognitive coaching can be used to improve teacher’s weakness and accentuate their strengths. Coaching is significant because it puts the teacher in charge of his/her own conference, it cause the teacher to think deeply about their teaching, and they are usually harder on themselves, I know I am harder on myself.
Cognitive coaching can also be used with students; we are always observing our students as the work so why not ask them about their work before we assess the work. I feel that by discussing their work they may discover changes they want to make with their work and as a teacher we may even get some insight into the work the completed. I know in literacy collaborative we do this through conferencing with the students about their writing projects or what they are reading. Usually the students do all the talking during these conferences. Again, the ultimate goal is to make the students