Colorado Early Childhood Coaching Resources
What is Coaching? (CDEC definition)
Coaching is an adult learning strategy that relies on the co-construction of knowledge and reflective capacity to transform both participants' practices. It draws on observations for collaborative analysis and decision-making with the coaching partner that inform planning to build upon the positive, equitable experiences children and families have daily.
CDEC Coaching Mission:
To increase the efficacy of early childcare and education providers through relationship-based coaching.
CDEC Coaching Vision:
Coaching is accessible, desirable, and embraced with deeply embedded and defined practices, and a solid structure aligned with all partners across Colorado.
Competencies are the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that contribute to individual and organizational performance. Knowledge is information developed or learned through experience, study or investigation. Skill is the result of repeatedly applying knowledge or ability.
A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals. Communities of practice often focus on sharing best practices and creating new knowledge to advance a domain of professional practice. Interaction on an ongoing basis is an important part of this.
Aligned to the Colorado Competencies for Early Childhood Coaches, the Colorado Early Childhood Coach Credential provides statewide recognition to early childhood professionals who have the foundational skills and dispositions necessary for effective coaching in the early childhood field. Credentialed coaches participate in department approved, coaching-specific training and engage in ongoing professional development with a trained reflective supervisor to maintain their coach credential.
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