Cognitive Coaching Part 2

Workshop Details

WHEN: Thursday, 27 to Sunday, 30 November 2025 (8:00am - 3:30pm)

WHERE: ISKL Ampang Hilir Campus (MPR 1)

FEES: USD800

For ISKL Faculty (please sign up on the PD Google Calendar)

FOCUS: Schoolwide

TRAINERS: Ochan Powell & Doug Woodward REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 20th NOVEMBER 2025

REFUNDS:

Full Refund: A full refund of all registration fees paid will be granted, if requested in writing before 13 November 2025.
Partial Refund: A 75% refund of all registration fees paid will be granted, less a RM50 refund processing fee, if requested in writing after 13 November 2025 but before 27 November 2025.
No Refund: No refund will be granted for any cancellation request made after 27 November 2025.

To begin the cancellation process, please email us at professionallearning@iskl.edu.my

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, 12th Edition
Numerous opportunities for practice

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Ochan Kusuma-Powell

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.

Ochan is an associate trainer for the Center for Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools.

Ochan and her husband Bill, are is 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).

Ochan is currently working on a project, The Next Frontier: Inclusion to support the inclusion of special needs children in international schools.

When she is not facilitating teacher workshops or speaking at conferences, Ochan can be found in the French Pyrenees where she fights (together with a handful of sheep) an annual battle with the European bramble.

Doug Woodward

Doug Woodward is the Middle School Assistant Principal at the International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL) and is passionate about teaching kids and helping schools get even better. His Masters in Educational Leadership and School Administration is from Indiana University. Doug is an Agency Trainer for Adaptive Schools, an Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE), Google Certified, and a former technology facilitator. Doug has taught a wide variety of subjects Pre-K to 12 and has lived and taught in Kenya, Peru, Jordan, USA and now Malaysia. Doug has facilitated and presented workshops at EARCOS, NESA, AASSA, Google Summits and ADE events. Most significantly, Doug is grateful for his wonderful wife, Tracy, and his three marvelous kids.

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