Teacher-student relationships contribute to a child’s behavioral and academic outcomes, and have long term impacts for students. Understanding how children differ in temperament can help you support your students’ academic and social-emotional development, as well as create effective classroom management strategies wherein everyone can thrive.
INSIGHTS will help you:
- Recognize and identify the temperament of your students;
- Achieve fit between the students’ temperaments and the classroom management style;
- React optimally to your student’s behaviors because you recognize both the strengths and challenges that come along with their unique temperament;
- Create a classroom community that is responsive to individual differences; and
- Develop relationships with students that contain low levels of conflict and high levels of closeness
Professional Development
INSIGHTS for Elementary School Educators (teachers, school counselors, school psychologists, and administrators) is a professional development program that has 6 one-hour asynchronized lessons and 7 synchronized one-hour sessions program that assists educators in recognizing children’s temperaments/personalities and then how to use strategies that reduce children’s behavior problems and enhances their social skills. The lessons and sessions are built on Nearpod an award-winning engagement platform that is accessible on any remote device. The lessons include videos, interactive activities, and downloadable handouts that can be used again and again. The lessons are conducted by an experienced INSIGHTS facilitator who will coach the educators in applying the content to their students. See an outline of the program below and the cost of the program is explained here.
Schedule for INSIGHTS for Educators
| Week | Facilitator Sessions Core Question | Lesson |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Facilitated Session #1 The facilitator welcomes the educators and gives them an opportunity to introduce themselves and briefly describe a challenging behavior that one of their students is exhibiting. The facilitator then presents an overview of NEW INSIGHTS and explains the logistics of assessing the asynchronized lessons. | Lesson #1 Recognizing Child Temperament |
| 2 | Facilitated Session #2 The educators identify the temperament of a student that they find challenging and another one that they find easy. | Lesson #2 Reframing Children’s Temperaments and Responding to Them |
| 3 | Facilitated Session #3 The educators report on the optimal, adequate, and counterproductive responses they used during the week and how their students reacted. | Lesson #3 Gaining Control |
| 4 | Facilitated Session #4 The facilitator leads the educators in critiquing the various goals and other contract components they plan to use. | Lesson #4 Disciplining School-Age Children |
| 5 | Facilitated Session #5 The educators report on the status of their student contracts and discuss whether amendments are needed. They also demonstrate the various signals they have implemented with their students. Then the facilitator leads the educators in discussing effective responses to disruptive student behavior. | Lesson #5 Cultivating a Classroom Community of Learners! |
| 6 | Facilitated Session #6 The educators continue reviewing the status of their student contracts and consider whether amendments are needed. In addition, they discuss how they have implemented other strategies they have learned within their classrooms. The facilitator also leads the educators is exploring how they celebrate the cultural diversity of their students. | Lesson #6 Everyone Needs Social and Emotional Skills |
| 7 | Facilitated Session #7 The educators update the status of their student contracts and discuss whether further amendments are needed. The facilitator asks each of the educators what SEL contract they have made with themselves and who will hold them accountable. |
Professional Development
INSIGHTS for Elementary School Educators (teachers, school counselors, school psychologists, and administrators) is a professional development program that has 6 one-hour synchronized lessons and 7 synchronized one-hour sessions program that assists educators in recognizing children’s temperaments/personalities and then how to use strategies that reduce children’s behavior problems and enhances their social skills. The lessons and sessions are built on Nearpod an award-winning engagement platform that is accessible on any remote device. The lessons include videos, interactive activities, and downloadable handouts that can be used again and again. The lessons are conducted by an experienced INSIGHTS facilitator who will coach the educators in applying the content to their students. See below for an outline of the program and the cost of the program is explained here.
2-Day Program for Schools
Day 1
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Overview of the workshop; Recognizing child temperament |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Reframing your perceptions |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 1:45 | Caregiver responses |
| 1:45 – 2:30 | Gaining compliance: contracts |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Break |
| 3:00 – 4:00 | Finalizing contracts Homework assignments |
Day 2
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Review of Day 1 Re-assessment of contracts |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Gaining compliance: discipline plans |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Expressing warmth: Parents, teachers, and even clinicians are people, too |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Break |
| 2:30 – 3:30 | Collaboration Advocacy Fostering independence |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Looking toward the future What if none of this works? |
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“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.”
Kate, Kindergarten Teacher
“Little by little, I am getting along better with my son. We still have alot of work to do with each other. The good part is that I know I’m headed in the right direction.”
Kate, 1st Grade Teacher
Tools for Schools
The INSIGHTS Intervention Workshop for Parents is a four-week program that teaches parents how to recognize their child’s temperament/personality and then how to use strategies that reduce their children’s behavior problems and enhance their social skills.
Temperament Profile Survey
There are four influential aspects of child temperament:
- Activity
- Approach/Withdrawal
- Negative Reactivity
- Task Persistent
Take the following Temperament Profile Survey to help discern whether your student is high, medium, or low in each category.
INSIGHTS can help understand what these results mean and how you can interact with your child productively.
teacher-student contract
A Teacher-Student Contract can help teachers:
- Extinguish repetitive, annoying child behaviors;
- Regain their authority over a child;
- Replace a recurring negative interchange between parent and child with an appropriate, positive one; and
- Reduce unruly student behavior, keeping it from turning the child teacher relationship into a spiral of negativity
Establish an agreement with your student by completing the following contract.