Conclusion

CONCLUSION
Cognitive Coaching gives a teacher the credit for improving his or her own performance.  It shows the teacher how to use his or her own thought processes in a way that can be transferred to better student achievement in the classroom.  The conversation maps and tools that the cognitive coach uses help the teacher clarify goals, specify success indicators, and plan for collecting evidence of improvement.  They help the teacher with reflection and problem solving.  The expected outcomes of Cognitive Coaching are increased test scores for students and increased reflection, increased thinking, increased career satisfaction, increased professional climate at school, increased teacher collaboration, increased professional assistance, and increased personal benefits for teachers.  Teachers who have been coached in the Cognitive Coaching method are more efficacious and interdependent then teachers who have not been involved (Knight, J., 2009).
On a whole, Cognitive Coaching seems to be a positive experience for teachers.