At Edopia, social and emotional learning is not a wellbeing programme or a feelings chart on a wall. It sits at the centre of how children learn to live with themselves and with each other. This is a part-time position for someone who can hold that work seriously.

Position Overview

You will lead weekly SEL sessions for Grade 1 and 2 children but the role asks for more than delivering a session. It asks for someone who understands that six and seven year olds are still learning very basic things: how to name what they feel, how to sit with discomfort, how to repair a relationship after something goes wrong, how to belong to a group without losing themselves in it.

Your sessions need to be grounded, age-appropriate, and practical. Children at this age learn through stories, conversation, role play, and by watching how the adults around them handle difficulty. That is the kind of SEL this role calls for.

What You Will Do

• Plan and lead weekly SEL sessions for Grade 1 and 2 children

• Help children build a basic emotional vocabulary, naming feelings before they can manage them

• Guide children through simple but real situations: conflict with a friend, feeling left out, not getting what they want

• Use stories, guided conversation, and role play to make emotional concepts accessible

• Observe how individual children are doing and flag concerns to the class teacher when needed

• Work in alignment with Edopia's broader community structures, morning circle, silence, and the school's habits framework

What We Are Looking For

• A genuine understanding of early childhood emotional development

• Experience working with young children in a structured, reflective capacity

• The ability to hold a room of six and seven year olds with calm and steadiness

• Comfort sitting with difficulty, conflict, or a child who is struggling, without rushing to fix it

• Familiarity with SEL frameworks or approaches, but not dependent on a script

What Matters Here

Children at this age are not too young for this work. They are already navigating friendships, disagreements, and big feelings they do not yet have words for. What they need is an adult who takes that seriously, not someone who keeps sessions cheerful and surface-level, but someone who can go a little deeper when the moment calls for it, and knows when to slow down and stay with something rather than move on.

How to Apply

Apply through our form and include a short note about your background, your experience working with young children in an SEL or related capacity, and how you would handle a situation where a child is visibly upset but unwilling to talk.