UNESCO - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialised agency of the United Nations aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

MGIEP - Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development

Teaching is one of the most challenging, demanding and stressful professions. Navigating the journey of being a teacher requires support—educational and emotional. Research shows that SEL interventions can provide this support by building necessary skills and competencies that teachers need.

Teacher and student mental and emotional well-being are interdependent. Unless teachers build their own SEL skills, it will be challenging for them to implement SEL in the classroom and raise emotionally resilient students.

Let’s help you become a better teacher, for a better world.

This UNESCO MGIEP Course aims to: 

1. Develop social and emotional skills for use in your classrooms - to build more empathetic, com passionate and  find learning environments and in turn, students. Students report better social and emotional skills and improved school performance.

2. Apply social and emotional skills in your personal life - become more self-aware as a person, and learn to navigate your emotions and understand others better.

Registration: SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) for Schools has two componenents: SEL for Teachers and SEL for Classrooms. When you apply, you submit one application.

Part 1_SEL for Teachers will be presented in Term 1 over 3 weeks and

Part 2_SEL for Classrooms in Term 2 over 2 weeks.  

Target Group: All  Teachers

Mode of Delivery: Online

Course Structure: 

1. SEL for Teachers, has four modules, is self-paced, interactive, and fully online. It focusses on teachers and their well-being. The course uses the practices of self-reflection, critical inquiry, and cognitive dissonance to support teachers to learn about SEL. The course includes strategies for better classroom manegment.
2. SEL for Classrooms, is a 10-hour self-paced digital course and provides access to child-friendly and age-appropriate resources to educators in the form of class activities, videos and worksheets that can be used in the classroom to cultivate and nurture SEL among students.

Course Certification: UNESCO MGIEP - Teachers receive 2 certificates, one for SEL for Teachers and another for SEL for Classrooms.

Certificates will be awarded to all who complete assessments with a score of 70%

Course Duration:  20-22 hrs

1. SEL for Teachers - Three weeks in Term 1 (10-12 hrs)
2. SEL for Classrooms - Two weeks in Term 2 (10-12 hrs)

Live online sessions - Two one hour sessions per week