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 = States of Mind: Coaching Conversation; Prompts that Promote Self-Reflection =

In this session participants will learn about five states of mind supported by Cognitive Coaching and how these mental habits promote self-reflection and effective teaching. Participants will describe teachers who display these states of mind, and work collegially to generate conversation prompts to support these states of mind in colleagues. Participants will leave the session with an understanding of mental habits that promote self-reflection and effective teaching, as well as the conversation prompts that can be used to promote effective states of mind.

· Participants will learn the five states of mind from Cognitive Coaching and how they support effective teaching. · Participants will be able to describe a teacher displaying these characteristics. · Par-Participants will generate questions and discussion prompts that promote these states of mind and collect question and discussion prompts from colleagues.

P Discussion prompts generated by previous participants of this session can be found on the Discussion Prompts page.
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=States of Mind from Cognitive Coaching =

=Efficacy = =Flexibility = =Craftsmanship = =Consciousness = =Interdependence =

__Session Materials __


 * Introduction **

[|Cognitive Coaching: A Foundation for Renaissance Schools] - Hardcover (Mar. 2002) by Arthur L. Costa and Robert J. Garmston

Moving Towards Holonomy

[|Talking Head - Not Yet to Holonomous.pdf]

Activity 1 and 2 on separate pages

 * Closing **

[|Talking Head - Existing to Desired State.pdf]

Presenter: Tiz Powers, MACC at GWU-CEEE

 * epowers@ceee.gwu.edu