INSIGHTS Intervention provides evidence-based services that foster the social, emotional, and behavioral development of children. We provide multifaceted services that teach educators, clinicians, and parents how to use temperament-based strategies to enhance the relationships they have with children.
How it Works
NEW INSIGHTS helps children (and adults) understand their own temperament and the temperaments of others.
With the help of puppets, children’s empathy is enhanced by learning that while certain situations may be easy for some individuals, they are more challenging for others depending on their temperament. Children also learn how to better resolve daily dilemmas.
Programs are also available for educators and parents. In their respective programs, adults learn effective strategies that match a child’s particular temperament. Adults also learn strategies to enhance their own social and emotional skills.
INSIGHTS reduces disruptive behavior, improves attention skills, and promotes academic success!
Core Principles of INSIGHTS
“I have been teaching for more than 20 years and sometimes I forget to implement strategies in my classroom. The program put me back in charge. Just like you say: not all strategies work for all students, but you have to continue to implement them to find out what works. If it does not, put those strategies to the side. You may need them next year.”
Benefits of INSIGHTS
In addition to improving classroom behavior and academic achievement, teachers and parents gain a rich understanding of children’s temperament and their own temperament. This insight allows them to tailor their responses accordingly and help advance children’s learning and development.
Teachers
INSIGHTS strengthens teachers’ sense of efficacy and improves classroom quality. The intervention helps teachers provide emotional support to students by fostering a more positive classroom climate, and increasing their sensitivity to students’ needs and perspectives.
Parents
Parents learn individualized strategies to help their children gain more empathy and enhance their self-regulation. It also improves parents relationships with their children. INSIGHTS is effective for shy children, enhancing their critical thinking, increasing their classroom engagement, and improving their math skills.
Children
Children learn to enhance their empathy skills, appreciate the temperament of peers, family members, and teachers, and employ problem-solving techniques when they encounter daily dilemmas. INSIGHTS increases attention during class time, lessens disruptive behavior, and increases reading and math scores.
Meet the Kids
The INSIGHTS kids fall under these four temperaments which reach about 50% of all student personalities.
High-Maintenance
Children whose temperaments are high-maintenance are emotionally reactive, which means they usually react strongly and negatively to stress or change. They often seem moody. They are low in task persistence and have difficulty finishing tasks. They also demonstrate high levels of movement and wiggle frequently.
Industrious
Industrious children demonstrate both high task persistence and low motor activity, which enables them to get things done. They take pleasure in their accomplishments. They are also low in negative reactivity, which means they are pleasant most of the time.
Shy & Cautious
Children with cautious and shy temperaments are often shy and slow to warm up. They are low in approach, which means their first reaction is to withdraw from new or stressful situations. They also demonstrate high negative reactivity and will let you know when they are not pleased with a situation.
Social & Eager to Try
Social children are eager to meet new people. They are high in approach, often driven by a need to be with people and to try new experiences. Their temperaments are low in negative reactivity and withdrawal, which means they are usually pleasant most of the time.