Track 1
Level 1 · Foundations
Social-Emotional Learning Foundations
Certificate · 6 modules
The five competencies, the evidence base, and how to notice and plan for them in everyday classroom activity.
MastaLEARN Professional · Teacher certification
Transform learning environments through the Professional Certificate in Social-Emotional Intelligence and Essential Life Skills.
Develop the professional competencies to build inclusive classrooms, strengthen learner wellbeing, improve relationships and integrate Social-Emotional Learning into modern competency-based education.
- 13
- certification tracks
- 3
- progressive levels
- 115
- assessed marks per module
Stage 4 · Social awareness
Designing for belonging
Cohort 12 · Applications now open for the January intake.
Competency profile
How your evidence scores across the five social-emotional domains.
Awarded on completion
A transcript and a certificate for every course
Finish any course in the programme and you are awarded its certificate, together with a transcript of your assessed results for that course.
Course certificate Course transcript
Complete every course
Professional Certificate in Social-Emotional Intelligence and Essential Life Skills
When all courses are complete you receive a consolidated Transcript showing your results from every course, alongside the Professional Certificate in Social-Emotional Intelligence and Essential Life Skills.
Thirteen tracks
One hub. Thirteen certification tracks.
Study a single track to close a gap in your practice, or stack them into a level certificate and the full professional award.
Track 2
Stage 2 · Practice
Self-Awareness & Emotional Literacy
Stage certificate · 4 modules
Your own emotional patterns as a teaching instrument, and routines that help learners name what they feel.
Track 3
Stage 3 · Practice
Self-Management & Regulation
Stage certificate · 4 modules
Co-regulation, coping strategies and the routines that hold a classroom steady when the day does not.
Track 4
Stage 4 · Practice
Social Awareness & Empathy
Stage certificate · 4 modules
Perspective-taking, belonging, and the practical design of classrooms where every learner participates.
Track 5
Stage 5 · Practice
Relationship Skills & Restorative Practice
Stage certificate · 4 modules
Cooperative learning, communication that builds trust, and repairing relationships after conflict.
Track 6
Stage 6 · Practice
Responsible Decision-Making
Stage certificate · 4 modules
Decision frameworks learners can carry out of school, and how to teach judgement under pressure.
Track 7
Level 2 · Advanced
Inclusive Education & Belonging
Professional certificate · 8 modules
Participation routines, group roles, language and assessment choices that make inclusion structural.
Track 8
Level 2 · Advanced
Classroom Management & Positive Discipline
Professional certificate · 6 modules
Regulation before reaction: routines, restorative conversations and discipline that repairs rather than excludes.
Track 9
Level 2 · Advanced
Competency-Based Assessment
Professional certificate · 5 modules
Design evidence tasks, moderate against a rubric and report on what learners can do, not what they recall.
Track 10
Level 3 · Leadership
Educational Leadership & Whole-School SEL
Advanced certificate · 8 modules
Needs assessment, staff development, monitoring and a defensible implementation plan for your school.
Track 11
Level 3 · Leadership
Family & Community Engagement
Advanced certificate · 4 modules
Conversations with families that hold dignity, and partnerships that extend SEL beyond the classroom door.
Track 12
Cross-cutting
Life Skills & Curriculum Integration
Short course · 4 modules
Map SEL and life skills onto CBC/CBE competencies without adding a separate subject to your timetable.
Track 13
Cross-cutting
Teacher Wellbeing & Resilience
Short course · 3 modules
Sustainable practice: workload, boundaries and the professional habits that keep good teachers teaching.
Why this hub
A certification pathway, not a course catalogue.
Competency-based education asks learners to collaborate, think critically and act with integrity. None of that is possible without emotional competence — theirs and yours.
See how the pathway is structured- 01
Evidence, not attendance
Every track ends in a moderated evidence task. Your portfolio — not a completion badge — is what earns the certificate.
- 02
Practice before theory
Seven simulation labs and classroom tasks put you inside the hard moments of teaching before you meet them for real.
- 03
Feedback that names what to change
Trainers respond in writing within five working days, against the same rubric your certificate is assessed on.
- 04
Built for real classrooms
Large classes, limited materials, multilingual learners — low-resource by design, mapped to CBC/CBE competencies.
Next cohort
Cohort 12 opens on 12 January.
Twenty-eight teachers per cohort, one trainer, live moderation on your portfolio. Applications close on 5 January so evidence tasks can be returned before term starts.
Seats remaining
18 / 28
10 seats taken in the first week.
- Applications close
- 5 January
- First live session
- 12 January
- Level 1 duration
- 6 weeks
Side by side
The difference is the practice.
What a professional development certificate should be measured against — and what most online courses actually provide.
Where the hours go
Time spent doing, not watching.
Roughly half of a MastaLEARN track is spent practising and building evidence. In a typical online course, the same hours are spent reading slides.
Share of total programme hours, self-reported across the 2025 cohorts.
MastaLEARNTypical course
Active practice
45% · 18%
Structured feedback
20% · 8%
Portfolio evidence
20% · 6%
Theory & reading
15% · 68%
Trainer-verified portfolio
Every certificate is backed by moderated evidence, never attendance alone.
Publicly verifiable
Each certificate number can be checked on the verification page by anyone.
Institutional invoicing
Purchase orders, seat management and reporting for school teams.
Schools and teacher-training institutions in the programme
Riverside Academy
St. Anne's College
Kilimani Primary
Lakeview Girls' School
Meridian Teacher College
Northgate Academy
Equip yourself to develop the whole learner.
Start with Level 1, join the full pathway, or bring your whole staff team into the programme.