Full Description
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.
Contents
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
