Impact of cognitive coaching

IMPACT OF COGNITIVE COACHING
Cognitive Coaching impacts the current climate of education and is used in supporting teacher leadership in several ways.  First, teachers can no longer be isolated and self-centered.  With programs such as No Child Left Behind, the success or failure in a classroom has ramifications not only for the school but the district and the community.  Second, teachers are made aware through Cognitive Coaching that individuals need each other and this is a fact that lies in the heart of every system.  Third, Cognitive Coaching satisfies what educational reform has acknowledged: the need to help teachers grow professionally.  Fourth, Cognitive Coaching not only influences teachers’ thinking and behaving but creates a climate for continued learning and self-modifying behaviors.  Fifth, teachers begin to use Cognitive Coaching with other teachers, their students and even in their personal lives (Eger, K., 2006).  Finally, the impact is that teachers have more active listening, stronger relationships, and higher levels of analysis.  By using Cognitive Coaching as part of professional growth, teachers are provided with meaningful occasions to achieve higher skills and become autonomous, self-modifying practitioners (Eger, K., 2006).