The+Conscious-Competence+Model

Help them to be the best version of themselves!
The Conscious Competence Model is a visual device you should use for your own personal use when observing teachers. While observing ask yourself where the teacher falls on the chart with various teaching skills and strategies. Think of it this way: The new teacher begins his career mostly in the bottom left corner of the diagram moving clockwise around the diagram in his career to become a master teacher on the bottom right side of the diagram. Incompetence ||= Conscious Competence || Incompetence ||= Unconscious Competence || Some teachers are unaware of their incompetencies. As they become aware of them, they can work to turn them into competencies that they are aware of. With practice, these competencies will become automatic. The teacher won't even realize that they are good at what they are doing hence mastery of teaching.
 * = Conscious
 * = Unconscious

As a coach, use this diagram to guide your coaching experiences with teachers. Help them move to the next place on the diagram with each of all of their skills including classroom management, content mastery and teaching skills. Be careful when using this remembering that you are not an evaluator. Don't pass judgement, let the principal take care of that. Use it to help guide conversations that can lead the learner to active reflection about their practices. A teacher struggles with classroom management, ask them why they like their seating arrangement. Look for a chance in the conversation to lead them to the pros and cons of their arrangement. **Starting the conversation is the first step!!**