The Cognitive Coach Approach
Cognitive Coaching is a research-based model that was created by Arthur Costa and Robert Garmston to help people become more self-directed, self-managing, self-monitoring, and self-modifying. The goal of Cognitive Coaching is to produce self-directed persons with the cognitive capacity for excellence both independently and as members of a community¹. It is based on the idea of metacognition, which is a state of mind where you are aware of your own thinking process, fostering independent thinking