1. New Faculty and Mentors Session 2

2. Agenda—Session 2 Review of Session 1 Coaching Conversations
--Role of a coach
--Responding Behaviors
Coaching Conversations
--Planning Map
Components
Model
Practice
--Reflecting Map

3. Opening Activity ( )
Please process the following three prompts with a new partner:
1. Summarize what you remember from Session 1.
2. There were three responding behaviors that will be used during
all conversations. Pick one of them and share your insights.
Describe a situation since our last meeting where you intentionally
focused on one of the responding behaviors.

4. Listening Set-Asides Solution Listening Autobiographical Listening
Inquisitive Listening
Interpretive Listening

5. Mediational Questioning
Invite complex thinking and reflection
Are open-ended, allowing for many possible responses
Are non-judgmental and embed positive presuppositions
Use plural nouns and tentative language
Focus on self-directed learning

6. Paraphrasing
Listen!!!!! Attend fully--pay attention to voice tone and gestures
Capture the essence of the message
Make the paraphrase shorter than the original statement (Strive for 10 words or less)
Avoid starting stems (ex. So…, What I hear you saying…)
Pronoun watch--paraphrase is about other person so use “you”. Avoid use of “I”

7. Opening Conversations
Role of Coach
Use Intentional Listening, Questioning, & Paraphrasing
Opening Stem:
Every year there are ups and downs. What has been the most rewarding….most challenging?

8. Major Move
Pair up with your mentoring pal.

9. Agenda—Session 2 Review of Session 1 Coaching Conversations
--Planning Map
Components
Model
Practice
--Reflecting Map

10. Coaching Model Reflecting Map Planning Map Problem Solving
Garmston and Costa, 1999, 4th Edition of Cognitive Coaching

11. Coaching Conversations
When to use
Types of Conversations
Held before an event, meeting, or lesson. Purpose is to clarify issues before the event. Can also be used after an issue has been clarified in order to develop a plan for implementation
Planning Conversation
Reflecting Conversation
Problem-Solving Conversation
Held after an event, meeting, or lesson. Purpose is to reflect on successes, new learnings, and concerns after the event. Can also be used when presented with data/new information that challenges existing status quo
Can be held anytime a problem exists. Purpose is to assist individual identify a personal goal and to consider internal responses to address this goal.

12. Role of a Coach Cognitive Shift: Available Tools Desired State
Deeper thinking shown by Physiological
Changes (BMIRS)
Available Tools
• Responding Behaviors
• Coaching Maps
• Energy Sources
• Types of Feedback
• Probes for Specificity
• Read the BMIRS
Resources used to create Cognitive Shift
Existing State

13. Agenda—Session 2 Review of Session 1 Coaching Conversations
--Planning Map
Components
Model
Practice
--Reflecting Map

14. Planning Conversation
Held before an event, meeting, or lesson. Purpose is to clarify issues before the event. Can also be used after an issue has been clarified in order to develop a plan for implementation
Planning Conversation
To be helpful, the coach needs to be very intentional in
what he/she says. What needs to happen during a
planning conversation?

15. Planning Conversations
Components of Planning Map
Clarify Goals
Determine success indicators and a plan for collecting evidence
Anticipate and plan for approaches, strategies, decisions, and monitoring procedures.
Identify personal learning focus, and process for self-assessment.
Reflect on coaching process and explore refinement.

16. Modeling a Planning Conversation
Assignment:
New Faculty—Script Coach’s Language
Mentor—Collect Reflector’s BMIR’s

17. Planning Conversation-First Round
Mentor--Coaching Chair
New Faculty--Reflector
Prompt: Let’s talk about your upcoming (event/meeting/lesson).

18. Planning Conversation-Second Round
New Faculty--Coaching Chair
Mentor--Reflector
Prompt: Let’s talk about your upcoming (event/meeting/lesson).

19. Agenda—Session 2 Review of Session 1 Coaching Conversations
--Planning Map
Components
Model
Practice
--Reflecting Map

20. Reflecting Conversation
Held after an event, meeting, or lesson. Purpose is to reflect on successes, new learnings, and concerns after the event. Can also be used when presented with data/new information that challenges existing status quo
Reflecting Conversation
To be helpful, the coach needs to be very intentional in
what he/she says. What needs to happen during a
reflecting conversation?

21. Reflecting Map All five focus areas: Summarize Impressions
Recall Supportive Information
Compare, analyze, infer, and determine cause-and-effect relationships
Construct new learnings and applications
Reflect on the coaching process and explore refinement

22. Reflecting Conversation—1st Round
Reflector: Mentor
Coach: New Faculty
Describe a lesson/situation/event in the last week that went well.

23. Reflecting Conversation—2nd Round
Reflector: New Faculty
Coach: Mentor
Describe a lesson/situation/event in the last week that went well.

24. Coaching Model What’s clearer now than at the start of our session?
Reflecting Map
Planning Map
Problem Solving
What’s clearer now than at the start of our session?

25. Next Steps
Next Meeting: Friday, November 4 at West Campus
Focus will be on problem-solving conversations
Homeplay: Before we next meet, complete at least one observation
with supporting conversations (planning before and reflecting after).
If the reflector is a new faculty member, he/she should focus on
at least one of the instructional strategies discussed this morning.