Ch. 1
What is Cognitive Coaching all about? At its root, Cognitive Coaching's goal is to allow those whom we are mentoring to arrive at their own conclusions and solutions to their problems and situations by allowing them the space to share their thoughts and feelings. As a mentor, using this strategy, you would then reflect back to them, using the same body language and tone, what they are stating. In this way the mentee will see their situation in a new light and be able to problem solve independently. Using this strategy, will give mentees the skills they will need to become self-directed.
In this chapter, I felt motivated to become a mentor who uses this strategy because the author wrote, "Few educational innovations achieve their full impact with out a coaching component" (p. 24). Teachers need other teachers to be there to listen and understand the struggles everyone goes through within their first years of teaching and even when they make a grade switch. I am currently going through a transition and if it wasn't for the patient and listening ears of a few of my fellow teachers, I would not be going to work with the right mindset.
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