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In this greatly expanded and extensively updated edition of a widely popular resource you see how teachers' individual and collective capacities for continuing self-improvement are strengthened over time through Cognitive Coaching.
List of contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Cognitive Coaching Resources
PART I: EXPLORING THE MEANINGS OF COGNITIVE COACHING
Chapter 1: Discovering the Meanings of Cognitive Coaching
Chapter 2: Identity
Chapter 3: The Mediator's Skills
Chapter 4: Mediating for Self-Directed Learning
Chapter 5: Repertoire of Support Functions
PART II: SOURCES OF EXCELLENCE
Chapter 6: Developing and Maintaining Trust
Chapter 7: States of Mind
Chapter 8: Teacher Cognition
Chapter 9: Inquiring into the Knowledge Base of Teaching
PART III: ENGAGING IN COACHING
Chapter 10: Human Diversity In Meaning-Making
Chapter 11: The Maps of the Planning and Reflecting Conversations
Chapter 12: Resolving Problems: The Third Coaching Map
Chapter 13: Calibrating Conversations
PART IV: THE IMPACT OF COGNITIVE COACHING
Chapter 14: Cognitive Coaching: A Synthesis of the Research by Jenny Edwards
Chapter 15: How Leaders Support Learning in the Agile Organization
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A: Suggestions for Teachers Own Standards
APPENDIX B: Inner Coaching
APPENDIX C: Mediative Questioning
APPENDIX D: Calibrating Conversation Script
APPENDIX E: Sources of Standards of teacher & leader performance
APPENDIX F: Other Resources About Self-Directedness
APPEDIX G: List Of Videos, Topics And Length of Time In Minutes.
About the Authors
Glossary of Terms
References
Index
About the author
Carolee is the Director of Business Operations for Thinking Collaborative, the home of the Adaptive Schools Seminars, the Cognitive Coaching Seminars®, and Kaleidoscope Associates. She is the former Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Coaching. She provides international training in:
Cognitive Coaching (SM),
Adaptive Schools,
presentation skills,
building collaborative school cultures,
organization development, transitions and change, and effective instruction.
She is a co-author of Cognitive Coaching: Weaving the Threads of Learning and Change into the Culture of an Organization and Effective School Leadership: Developing Principals through Cognitive Coaching. She has been a presenter at many national conferences and is an author of a variety of educational journal articles.
Carolee was the Director of Professional Development for Douglas County School District Re.1, in Colorado, from 1989 to 1998. She developed and directed the nationally recognized Building Resource Teacher program which places a staff developer in every school to support building level staff development, new teacher induction, implementation of innovation in curriculum, and instruction and assessment. It was one of the first building-based instructional coaching programs in the U.S.
Prior to working for Douglas County, Carolee was a staff developer and middle school and high school teacher in Jefferson County, Colorado. She holds a B.A. in family studies from Colorado Women’s College and an M.A. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Denver. She is licensed as a secondary teacher and administrator by the State of Colorado.
Carolee has been married for many years to her husband John. They live in Denver and are the parents of a son and daughter and the grandparents of two boys and a girl.
Summary
In this greatly expanded and extensively updated edition of a widely popular resource you see how teachers' individual and collective capacities for continuing self-improvement are strengthened over time through Cognitive Coaching.
