Math coaching Day 2
Essential Question Reflection
What are the characteristics of an
effective coach, what do they need to
know and be able to do?
What's the Big Idea?
Purpose for today
Understanding Cognitive Coaching as one of the four
support functions
Understanding the five states of mind to build
holonomy
Understand the reflection conversation map with the
essential coaching pattern of pausing, paraphrasing,
pausing, and posing questions
Reflection
Turn to a neighbor and share strategies you used?
1. what is one thing that excited you?
2. What is one thing made you nervous, frustrated or
challenged you?
3. What one thing do you want to learn more about?
Key points for Coaching
Benefits of coaching
Requirements for coaching
Four support functions
Coaching
Collaborating
Consulting
Evaluating
Practice
Five States of Mind
HOLONOMY
A Snapshot of Cognitive Coaching
5 States of Mind: Tools for disciplined choice making
“Self development of personal efficacy requires mastery of
knowledge and skills, attainable only through long hours of
arduous work.”
-A. Bandura (p. 126)
Efficacy
“Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe that you
have no control, then you have no control.”
-W. Roberts.
Flexibility
“Learn to do uncommon things in an uncommon
manner. Learn to do things so thoroughly that no
one can improve upon what has been done.
Craftsmanship
“The White people think the whole body is controlled
by the brain. We have a word, umbelini (the whole
intestines): that is what controls the body. My
umbelini tells me what is going to happen: have you
never experienced it?”
-M. Tiso (Xhosa Tribe, South Africa)
Consciousness
“We’ve each been invited to this present moment by design.
Our lives are joined together like the tiles of a mosaic; none of
us contributes the whole of the picture, but each of us is
necessary for its completion.”
-K. Casey & M.Vanceberg
Interdependence
“We all have the extraordinary coded within us,
waiting to be released.”
-J. Houston (p. 124)
“Within you right now is the power to do
things you never dreamed possible. This
power becomes available to you just as
you can change your beliefs.”
-M. Malts (p. 142)
Goals of Cognitive Coaching
Colleagues are encouraged to:
Inquire
Speculate
Construct Meanings
Self-evaluate
Self-prescribe
The Mediator’s Toolkit
Paralanguage
Response Behaviors
Structuring
Mediative Questioning
Paralanguage
Nonverbal & Verbal Cues
Posture
Gesture
Inflection
Pitch
Volume
Rate of Speech
Language Choices
Breathing
Response Behaviors
Silence (wait longer than you think you need to)
Communicates respect
Results in positive effect on cognitive processing
Acknowledging (give verbal & nonverbal cues)
Communicates that ideas have been heard
Paraphrasing (stems)
Acknowledge & Clarify
Summarize & Organize
Shift Focus
Clarifying
Providing Data & Resources
Structuring
A coach clearly communicates expectations about
purposes and the use of such resources as time, space,
and materials.
Should be based on a common understanding of the
purposes for the coaching, the roles the coach should
play, time allotments, and placement of the coach.
Mediative Questioning
“It’s not the answers that enlighten us, but the questions.”
Intentionally designed to engage and transform thinking and
perspective.
Questions must meet three criteria:
Invitational in intonation and form
Engage specific complex cognitive processes
Address content that is either external or internal to the other
person.
Questioning & Feedback Toolbox
Planning Conversation
Observation
Reflecting Conversation
Homework
Practice pausing, paraphrasing, and rapport
Add questions that address the three criteria:
Invitational in intonation and form
Engage specific complex cognitive processes
Address content that is either external or internal to the
other person.
Collect examples of States of Mind