Cognitive Coach Course

Different to most on-line CPD, the Thinking Matters ‘Cognitive Coach’ Course is a live, interactive and expert-led course designed to develop individual teacher pedagogy with practical, effective strategies that enhance metacognition and self-regulation in learners.

The course will allow participants to:

• gain confidence in using metacognitive tools and strategies in their teaching.
• enhance their pedagogical expertise to share with colleagues.
• build meaningful evidence to support professional development objectives.
  

School/MAT Leader | T&L Research Group | Coaching Partnership | Teacher | Tutor | HLTA | TA | SENDCo

This course is for educators who have an active professional interest in developing student metacognitive and self-regulating learning behaviours and would like to grow expertise in the practical teaching strategies that can make a difference.

Individuals will join a cohort of like-minded professionals, forming of a group of up to 12 colleagues from across the UK and abroad. The cohort will come together during interactive online sessions and benefit from the networking opportunity this brings. Participants will receive individualised support from the lead consultant.

School/MAT leaders can choose to work with Thinking Matters to form a cohort comprising members of staff from across the setting who share a common interest in metacognitive and self-regulating learning behaviours and are intending to build in-house expertise to meet whole-school improvement objectives.

• Agree your module dates with us.
• Each module is sequenced progressively, allowing participants the opportunity to explore and build upon their ideas, through engagement with expert-led ‘live’ online sessions.
• Each session includes pre- and post-activities to support participants in experimenting, monitoring and evaluating possibilities presented to them in a serious and committed fashion.
• Through these activities, participants will build a portfolio of evidence demonstrating developing skills and their impact. This includes written accounts such as reflective journals, individual and group tasks and records of in-school activity that demonstrate developing skills and their impact.
• The course culminates in a final short assessment in the form of an individual viva, during which participants are able to share the development of their pedagogical practice and its impact on student learning. The viva will be conducted by your course lead, a Thinking Matters Accredited Trainer (typically a former SLT member at an Exeter University accredited Thinking School).