SOCIAL - EMOTIONAL COMPETENCY AMONG TEACHERS – A PRE-REQUISITE FOR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING AMONG STUDENTS

This paper focuses on the need and urgency of developing the Social Emotional Competency of teachers as well as the students. Teachers play an important role in helping students deal with their social and emotional crises. In order to enable the students SEL, the teachers themselves should be well-equipped with this soft skill. Hence the 21st century teachers should first be aware of their own social-emotional needs and the ways and means of handing their personal crises, only then can they help her wards. SEC is one of the essential core competencies in today’s challenging world so as to foster the students SEL