Develop Parents Social Emotional Learning training content - Beirut - FOR NATIONAL CANDIDATES ONLY

Background of the project  

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

USAID’s “Quality Instruction towards Access and Basic Education Improvement” (QITABI 2) is a five-year program seeking to improve learning outcomes for all students in public primary schools in Lebanon awarded to Word Learning.  The International Rescue Committee (IRC) will lead the social and emotional learning (SEL) component of the program and is responsible of developing Social Emotional SEL Short videos addressed to teachers and to students and aiming to explain main SEL messages and skills.

Scope of work

The Contractor will be responsible for reviewing and developing blended/online training materials Parents Social Emotional Learning training content.

Deliverables:

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develop parents Social Emotional training materials that will be used for blended training approach.
• Review existing IRC and QITABI parents training modules.
• Align the trainings to QITABI 2 HLA and UDL teaching approach.
• Conceptualize training materials based on assessed needs and revision.
• Suggest additional module based on the above findings.
• Transform the module into a blended training technique (Webinar, training videos …)
• Suggest methodologies for parents blended training approach
• Development of blended parent-facing content for use with parents and corresponding training materials
• Development of blended training content to improve parent-child relationship and home environment and to reinforce social and emotional learning in the home.
• Development key messages for parent and public awareness videos

Deliverable

Numbers of days

Review IRC and ECD materials related to family matters

3

Assess parents’ need and interview IRC staff and Qitabi II partners

3

Develop additional training module in Arabic

5

Assess and review blended approach for parents’ training

2

Create content for blended learning (5 modules), webinar and/or training videos

6

Report with all related literature review (In English)

1

N.B: the report should be in English, while all developed materials should be in Arabic.

Requirements:

• Advanced university degree in the field of Education, Social Sciences, Teaching, Psychology, or relevant fields of study.
• Well versed in SEL language within the Lebanese context
• Knowledge and understanding of the social context of relevant age groups, namely primary grades 1 – 6.
• Good knowledge in IT
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working with the public education sector
• Ability to apply theoretical and research-based knowledge into context specific SEL language
• Fluent in French /English