The toolkit is a set of materials directed towards children, parents, caregivers and teachers in various settings, which promote psychosocial wellbeing and link with key life skills to strengthen social and emotional learning.

Through Education in Emergencies Evidence for Action (3EA), IRC and NYU Global TIES for Children conducted an implementation study to evaluate its programming in Sierra Leone during the 2017-18 school year. Several key lessons learned from that research, specifically as they relate to the importance of and challenges around teacher professional development, are the focus of this brief.

The present study has four goals: characterizing a framework for teaching competencies in crisis contexts in Afghanistan, generating valid and reliable instruments to assess this framework, assess teachers’ needs and competencies based on classroom observations and self-reports, and, Identify how contextual and individual teaching characteristics are associated with teachers’ competencies,.

These resources include a needs assessment survey and facilitator guide to design and implement a remote mentoring or coaching model through text-messages on WhatsApp.