inThync Professional Training
Business and education leaders are pursuing more agile thinking to equip thinkers for the future.
inThync helps organisations, teams and learners stretch their thinking agility to adapt to today’s mental demands.
Our brain dominance profiles are as unique to us as our fingerprints. Understanding our preferences and strengths provides a powerful entry to improving communication with others, group dynamics, problem-solving and decision-making processes. Better thinking, better learning.
Brainy Me! - an introduction to Meta-cognition
Online by appointment
Enjoy an introductory online session to discover insights into your own thinking preferences and strengths. It's a one hour session for anyone who wishes to acquire fundamental insights into cognition by learning about their own thinking. Understanding your own "brainy waves" improves your problem solving and decision making agility, and your engagement with others. Welcome to Whole Brain® thinking.
Online, by appointment
HBDI® Profile Package
2020 HBDI Profile Packages
Begin your meta-cognitive journey here. SELECT your HBDI® Profile category to order online now, or contact us directly. Receive your web-key, then complete an online Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument HBDI® Profile questionnaire. Your confidential HBDI® Profile Report is presented to you by your inThync practitioner online, or at a venue convenient to you.
To learn more, register for a "Brainy Me!" customised online briefing (also on TryBooking).
Purchase online, questionnaire webkey, then 1 to 1 debriefing
Brainy Me! - an Introduction to Metacognition
Introducing Thinking Agility
Share an introductory online session with our certified trainer to discover insights into your own thinking preferences and strengths. It's a one hour session for teachers, parents, team leaders or students who wish to gain fundamental insights into their unique thinking habits, and the diversity of thinking in others. Understanding and stretching your "brain agility" improves your problem solving, decision making and engagement with others.
Online, by appointment
HBDI® Profile Package
2019 HBDI Profile Packages
Begin your meta-cognitive journey here. SELECT your HBDI® Profile category to order online now, or contact us directly. Receive your web-key, then complete an online Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument HBDI® Profile questionnaire. Your confidential HBDI® Profile Report is presented to you by your inThync practitioner at a venue convenient to you.
To learn more, register for a "Brainy Me!" customised online briefing (also on TryBooking).
Purchase online, questionnaire webkey, then 1 to 1 debriefing
Relief Teaching Essentials
Relief Teaching
Each day of relief teaching presents fresh circumstances, expectations and opportunities. Join us in an online training program to plan and prepare your own strategies to succeed. Gain insights, advice, resources, techniques, tools and tips. Become fully equipped with knowledge, confidence, ideas and strategies to ensure satisfaction in your chosen pathway. Two sessions included.
2 x 1 hr online sessions included, by appointment
Teaching Meta-cognition
Online sessions - by appointment
This module comprising 2 x one-hour sessions of online desktop share provides practical strategies for teaching Meta-cognition that are customised to your role.
We explore how learners gain better understandings of their own thinking structures in lessons where meta-cognition is explicitly referenced for learners to identify, describe, understand, practice, develop and manage their own thinking options.
via Desktop delivery
CV and Application Writing - "The Write Message"
2 x 1 hr sessions included
This online training offers guidelines and advice for those preparing a CV/Resume for presentation to schools, or who may be seeking assistance in applying for advertised positions in teaching or education support. Key insights into successful CVs and applications, offered from the experience of former education industry recruiters are provided. The second session provides customised learning as you undertake the process of specific application, then interview.
Online desktop share
Visible Thinking Routines Challenge - teachers and parents
By appointment
A school-based workshop for teachers or parents wishing to research the impact of metacognition on the learners in their care F-10, based on research referenced from Project Zero at Harvard and the Science of Learning Research Centre. All materials are provided to enable the teacher to infuse the visible thinking routines and tools into current units of study, or for parents to use at home. Up to 12 participants.
Staff Room Workshop, or Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
CRT Essentials
Casual Relief Teaching
Each day of relief teaching presents fresh circumstances, expectations and opportunities. Join us in an online training program to plan and prepare your own CRT strategy. Gain insights, advice, resources, techniques, tools and tips. Become fully equipped with knowledge, confidence, ideas and strategies to ensure enjoyment and success in your chosen pathway. Two sessions included.
Online, by appointment
Explicit Teaching for Visible Thinking
By appointment
Describing one's own thinking, and chosen strategies helps strengthen engagement with the task, and one's self-efficacy. Join our inThync trainer online for two one-hour sessions that are customised to your thinkers' context. In these sessions visible thinking routines and tools are introduced to facilitate critical and creative thinking at all levels across the curriculum.
Desktop share
Brainy Me! - an introduction to Meta-cognition
Online by appointment
Enjoy a fascinating online session with one of our thinking team to discover insights into your own thinking preferences and strengths. It's a one hour session for anyone - teachers, team leaders, parents or students who wish to gain fundamental insights by learning about their own thinking. Understanding your own "brainy waves" improves your problem solving and decision making agility, and your engagement with others. Try some fun Whole Brain® thinking.
Online, by appointment
CV and Application Writing - "The Write Message"
Online training & support by appointment
This online training over two sessions offers guidelines and advice for those preparing a CV/Resume for presentation to schools, or who may be seeking assistance in applying for advertised positions in teaching or education support. Key insights into successful CVs and applications, offered from the experience and wisdom of former education industry recruiters are provided. The second session provides specific tailored learning as you undertake the process of application, then interview.
Online, by appointment
CRT Essentials
Casual Relief Teachers
Each day of relief teaching presents fresh circumstances, expectations and opportunities. Join us in an online training program to plan and prepare your own CRT strategy. Gain insights, advice, resources, techniques, tools and tips. Become fully equipped with knowledge, confidence, ideas and strategies to ensure enjoyment and success in your chosen pathway. Two sessions included.
Online, by appointment
HBDI® Profile Package
2018.2
Begin your meta-cognitive journey from here. SELECT your HBDI® Profile fee category to purchase online now, or contact us directly. Receive your web-key, then complete an online Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument HBDI® Profile questionnaire. Your confidential HBDI® Profile Report is presented to you by your inThync practitioner at a venue convenient to you.
To learn more, register for a "Brainy Me!" customised online briefing (also on TryBooking).
Purchase online, questionnaire webkey, then 1 to 1 debriefing
Explicit Teaching for Visible Thinking and Learning
Online as convenient
Join our inThync trainer online for two one-hour sessions customised to your thinkers' context. Delve into a toolkit of visible thinking routines and tools that incorporate critical and creative thinking processes across the curriculum. Focus can be given to reasoning, or creativity and innovation as preferred. The explicit teaching of thinking processes supports meta-cognitive and positive mindset growth. These are popular and practical sessions. Face-to-face team sessions are also available.
Online, by appointment
CRT Networks' Symposium for CRTs and PRTs
06 July 2018 9.00am - 1.00pm
All Casual Relief Teachers and Provisionally Registered Teachers are invited by the south - eastern group of CRT Networks to a half-day forum to share professional experiences and develop expectations with colleagues. This is a rare opportunity for face to face networking that will focus on specific professional learning interests of current importance.
Noble Park Aquatic Centre
HBDI® Profile Package
2018.2
Begin your meta-cognitive journey from here. SELECT your HBDI® Profile fee category to purchase online now, or contact us directly. Receive your web-key, then complete an online Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument HBDI® Profile questionnaire. Your confidential HBDI® Profile Report is presented to you by your inThync practitioner at a venue convenient to you.
To learn more, register for a "Brainy Me!" customised online briefing (also on TryBooking).
Purchase online, questionnaire webkey, then private debriefing
Teaching Thinking to Learn
Friday 29th June 9.30am - 12.30pm
Thinking tools excite learners by providing pathways for thinking through their learning tasks. Participants receive a myriad of tools to teach, to build a repertoire of cognitive strategies to equip their learners. This is a stimulating workshop for teachers, trainers, coaches and parents, customised to your context, and to the learners with whom you are engaged.
Herrmann Learning Centre
When Great Minds DON'T Think Alike - Learning Difficulties
Saturday 26th May 9.30am - 12.30pm
Given that learning difficulties may not be an exact science, and that no two individuals' needs will be identical, this program is designed to assist teachers and education support personnel to make well-informed decisions about identifying and responding skilfully to a child's learning challenges. This provides excellent overview of the range and complexity of learning difficulties that present themselves in different ways in the classroom. Presenter: Nadine Shome - www.reminds.com.au
Unicorn Club, Melbourne High School
Welcome to Relief Teaching
Friday 13th April 9.30am - 12.30pm
Each day of relief teaching presents fresh circumstances, expectations and opportunities. Join us in a practical workshop with skilled and adventurous colleagues who are choosing to specialise in relief teaching. Gain shared insights, advice, resources, techniques, tools and tips, and leave feeling fully equipped with knowledge, confidence, ideas and strategies to ensure your professional enjoyment and success.
Library@The Dock
The "Learning to Learn" Classroom
Friday 2nd February 9.30am - 12.00pm
Better thinking excites learners. This workshop provides practical tools for teaching thinking strategies in different learning areas and subjects, that in turn enable learners to better analyse, reason, evaluate and explore possibilities across a range of contexts.
Participants also receive tools for meta-cognitive mapping and profiling that empower learners with an ability to utilise their own cognitive preferences, strengths and versatility.
Library@The Dock
CV and Application Writing - "The Write Message"
Friday 23rd Mar 2018 09:30am to 12.30pm
This program offers guidelines and advice for those intending to present a CV/Resume to schools, or who may be seeking assistance in applying for advertised positions, teaching or education support. Key insights into successful CVs and applications, offered from the experiences of former education industry recruiters are provided.
Participants also value workshop support to assist in the commencement, preparation, review or final presentation of their own drafts.
Library @ The Dock
The HBDI®Profile and Whole Brain® Thinking Explained - March
Friday 2nd March 10.30am - 12.00pm
This information session introduces the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument HBDI® Profile and Whole Brain® Model for better thinking to improve communication, teaching, learning, problem solving and decision making. This is a great introduction to meta-cognition for individuals, pairs, teams or organisations whether at home, school or work. Small groups only - book early. Your fee can be claimed as deposit for ordering an HBDI® Profile at www.trybooking.com/SASL
ANZ Mezzanine
Teaching With Critical and Creative Capabilities in Mind
Saturday 24 Feb 2018 9:00am - 1.00pm
From recent research and a wide range of sources, this program offers highly effective tools that promote stronger thinking and learning engagement within all learning areas to better cater for diverse thinking preferences and learning strengths
We reference the three strands, Questions & Possibilities, Meta-cognition, and Reasoning from F - 10, in a vibrant and practical workshop that utilises thinking routines, structures and language that build student curiosity and invite participation.
Unicorn Club, Melbourne High School
Teaching Reasoning as a Thinking Capability
Friday 16th February 10.00am - 12.30pm
This is Module 2 of a series of three programs linked to the thinking capabilities strands. It provides teachers with practical ideas on the explicit teaching of Reasoning processes across a range of learning areas.
We explore how learners compose, analyse and evaluate arguments and reasoning. Explicitly referencing reasoning processes within the lesson enables learners to identify, describe, understand, practice, develop and manage their own reasoning strategies in different subject contexts.
Library@The Dock
Teaching Questions & Possibilities as Thinking Capabilities
Friday 2nd February 1.30am - 4.00pm
This is Module 3 of a series of programs linked to thinking capabilities. We identify how learners develop understanding of the role that questioning plays in enabling their learning within all learning areas F-10.
Teachers are offered practical techniques and resources that support the explicit teaching of Questioning processes within inquiry-driven lesson structures and build learners' imaginative and intuitive capacities through curiosity and speculation. An interesting and fun workshop!
Library@The Dock
Teaching Meta-cognition as a Thinking Capability
Friday 2nd February 9.30am - 12.00pm
This is Module 1 of a series of three programs linked to the thinking capabilities. It provides teachers with practical ideas on incorporating Meta-cognition within their learning areas.
We explore how learners gain better understandings of their own thinking structures in lessons where meta-cognition is explicitly referenced and learners can identify, describe, understand, practice, develop and manage their own thinking options in different subject contexts. An interesting and fun workshop.
Library@The Dock
The HBDI®Profile and Whole Brain® Thinking Explained - Jan
Wednesday 17th January 2.00pm - 3.00pm
This information session explains the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument HBDI® Profile and Whole Brain® Model for better thinking to improve communication, teaching, learning, problem solving and decision making. This is a great introduction to meta-cognition for individuals, pairs, teams or organisations whether at home, school or work. Small groups only - book early. Your fee can be claimed as deposit for ordering an HBDI® Profile at www.trybooking.com/SASL
Mulgrave Country Club
The HBDI®Profile and Whole Brain® Thinking Explained - Dec
Saturday 9 December 2017
These are free one hour information sessions that explain the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument HBDI®Profile and Whole Brain® Model for better thinking to improve communication, teaching, learning, problem solving and decision making. This is a great introduction to meta-cognition for individuals, pairs, teams or organisations whether at home, school or work. Small groups only, so don't miss out - book early. Profile pricing options can be found at www.trybooking.com/SASL
Mulgrave Country Club
When Numbers DON'T Add Up - Learning Difficulties & Numeracy
Friday 6 October 2017
Given that learning difficulties may not be an exact science, and that no two individuals' needs will be identical, this program is designed to assist teachers and education support personnel to make well-informed decisions about identifying and responding to the child's numeracy challenges. Participants receive written course materials, tools and resources to help improve and enhance numeracy development.
Quest Werribee Apartment Hotel
Word Woes - Reading for Children with Learning Difficulties
Friday 6 October 2017
Given that learning difficulties may not be an exact science, and that no two individuals' needs will be identical, this program is designed to assist teachers and education support personnel to make well-informed decisions about identifying and responding to the child's reading challenges. Participants receive written course materials and numerous tools and resources to help improve and enhance learning in reading, comprehension and related areas of need.
Quest Werribee Apartment Hotel
