Coaching Jacque Melin We want to Increase Student

Coaching Jacque Melin

We want to Increase Student Learning In order to do this…. . how Adaptive are we? Adaptive Definition: Changing form (practice) while changing identity. Focusing Questions: Who are we? Who do we need to be? Why are we doing this way? From Adaptive Schools Garmston & Wellman

Adapted or Adaptive?

Companies that are adaptive…(or not) • Adaptive • Not • Target • Blockbuster • Google • Sears • 3 M • Amazon • Apple

Apple

Dilts Nested Levels of Learning One level impacts the other… Identity Beliefs, Values, Assumptions Capabilities Behaviors Environment WHO? WHY? HOW? WHAT? WHERE?

Dilts Nested Levels of Learning One level impacts the other… Very powerful in highlighting the link between what we think, what we do, and the results we get. Identity Beliefs, Values, Assumptions Capabilities Behaviors Environment The roles we play Beliefs &values we hold as important to us. Skills & knowledge Actions & Reactions Result/Outcome

Dilts Nested Levels of Learning One level impacts the other… Things you can do to improve your effectiveness as a science teacher. Reflect on the environment around you. It is what you want it to be? Are you achieving the results you want? Identity Beliefs, Values, Assumptions Capabilities Behaviors Environment The roles we play Beliefs &values we hold as important to us. Skills & knowledge Actions & Reactions Result/Outcome

“All the good work in schools is just tinkering unless we clarify our identities as collaborators and inquirers. ” - Michael Fullan

Vision for School Change The Elements of Professional Community 1. Compelling purpose and academic focus 4. Deprivatized practice 2. Collective efficacy and shared responsibility for student learning 5. Relational trust in one another 3. Collaborative culture 6. Individual and group learning based on ongoing assessment and feedback From Adaptive Schools Garmston & Wellman

Collaboration does not happen by chance; it has to be taught, practiced and learned. Developing collaborative cultures is the work of leaders who realize that a collection of superstar teachers working in isolation cannot produce the same results as interdependent colleagues who share and develop professional practices together. - Garmston and Wellman

Outcomes for this part of the workshop • Gain an emerging understanding of the benefits of Cognitive Coaching℠ • Examine skills needed to be a proficient collaborator • Explore a communication tool that supports collaboration From Cognitive Coaching ℠ Costa and Garmston

Model • List what you observe about: • The interaction • The coach’s behavior • The coachee’s thinking From Cognitive Coaching ℠ Costa and Garmston

Mission Statement • The mission of Cognitive Coaching℠ is to produce self-directed persons with the cognitive capacity for high performance both independently and as members of a learning community. • The metaphor of a stagecoach is one used to understand what a coach does—convey a valued person from where s/he is to where s/he wants to be. From Cognitive Coaching ℠ Costa and Garmston

How Proficient Collaborators Think and Act • Which of these strategies do you use? Does your staff use? • Which of these strategies might need to be modeled and practiced to encourage students/adults to use? From Cognitive Coaching ℠ Costa and Garmston

Positive Presuppositions • Instead of asking, “Does • “Given our shared concern about student any body here know why achievement, let’s the kids aren’t learning? examine our assumptions about what might be causing the gaps in learning. ” From Cognitive Coaching ℠ Costa and Garmston

Positive Presuppositions • As you reflect upon the lesson, • As you examine the data, • Based upon past successful experiences, • As an experienced educator, • As a successful teacher, From Cognitive Coaching ℠ Costa and Garmston

Pausing • Wait time. From Cognitive Coaching ℠ Costa and Garmston

Paraphrasing/Listening Set Asides Paraphrasing Listening Set Asides • Attend fully • Autobiographical • Capture the essence of • Inquisitive the message • Solution • Paraphrase before asking a question • Use the pronoun “you” instead of “I”. From Cognitive Coaching ℠ Costa and Garmston

Principals of Paraphrasing sends three messages 1. I am listening 2. I am interested/I care 3. I understand you (or I am trying to) From Cognitive Coaching ℠ Costa and Garmston

Levels of Paraphrasing From Cognitive Coaching ℠ Costa and Garmston

Planning Conversation • Occurs before a colleague conducts or participates in an event, resolves a challenge, or attempts a task. The coach may or may not be present during the event or available for follow-up conversation. You try…

Exit Card • Armed with all of the information from this workshop, what are YOUR next steps?