Cognitive Coaching Part 2
Workshop Details
WHEN: Thursday, 17 to Sunday, 20 March 2016 (8:00am - around 3:30pm)
WHERE: ISKL Melawati Campus - Community Room
FEES: USD750 DEADLINE FOR CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION: 3rd MARCH 2016
FOCUS: Schoolwide REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 14th MARCH 2016
Workshop Overview
Part 2 of the Cognitive Coaching course includes Days 5-8 of the Cognitive Coaching Foundation Course. In order to register for Part 2, participants must have completed part 1. Part 2 will provide participants with a deeper understanding of how to support the thinking of others. Time for review, integration and practice is provided so that participants develop confidence and understanding of how and when they can apply their skills. This course will also support participants in developing the skills of facilitation.
Student Learning Outcomes
As a result of this course, learners will:
- Understand the processes and structures underlying 'reflection into planning' and Problem-Resolving and apply them in coaching conversations.
- Understand the influence of cognitive style, filters of perception and belief systems that influence their own and the coachee's thinking.
- Develop skills to invite cognitive shift in the coachee.
- Become sensitive to the coachee's States of Mind.
- Craft mediative questions to access and elevant different States of Mind.
- Become increasingly aware of and sensitive to the nonverbal communication of others.
- Develop skills in supporting coachees in recognising 3rd party problems and reframing them in the 1st party.
- Become metacognitive about their own learning.
The workshop is highly interactive and will include:
- Review and integration
- Small group / whole class activities
- A variety of learning strategies and protocols that are easily transferable to classroom settings
- Readings from the CC Learning Guide, 10th Edition
- Numerous opportunities for practice
William (Bill) Powell and Ochan Kusuma-Powell
William (Bill) Powell has served as an international school school educator for the past 30 years in the United States, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Malaysia. From 1991 to 1999, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of the International School of Tanganyika in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and from 2000 - 2006 as Headmaster of The International School of Kuala Lumpur.
Ochan Kusuma-Powell received her doctorate from Columbia University and has developed and implemented inclusive special education programs in the United States, Indonesia, Malaysia and Tanzania. At the present time she is the Executive Director of Education Across Frontiers. She is regular speaker at international educational conferences and teaches in the summers at the Teacher Training Center.
Both Bill and Ochan are associate trainers for the Center for Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools.
Bill and Ochan are the co-authors of Count Me In! Developing Inclusive International Schools (2000), Making the Difference: Differentiation in International Schools (2007) Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Teacher (2010) and How to teach now: Five Keys to Personalized Learning in the Global Classroom (2011) and The OIQ Factor: How to Raise the Organizational Intelligence of your School (2013).
Bill and Ochan are currently working on a project, The Next Frontier: Inclusion to support the inclusion of special needs children in international schools.
When they are not facilitating teacher workshops or speaking at conferences, Bill and Ochan can be found in the French Pyrenees where they fight (together with a handful of sheep) an annual battle with the European bramble.