Education Innovation Programs

Our Past and Current Partners

Teacher Training Programs

Our teacher training and coaching programs provide both Private and Public school teachers access to skills, innovation tools, and support they need in order to thrive in the 21st century landscape.

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL)

Mano Amiga’s mission is to create more safe spaces for children through Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). Studies show that SEL increases academic achievement by 11% and decreases emotional distress by 10%. Having implemented SEL in Mano Amiga for almost 10 years, we have become a leading expert in SEL. Our teacher training programs aim to empower educators to integrate SEL principles in their schools so that students and teachers are able to process their emotions more effectively — enabling them to understand themselves and the people around them better.

  • "SEL let me realize that in teaching, we don't only focus on the content but we can also develop self-care, especially in the emotions of our learners."

    Kisheil Obeso, Minglanilla District

  • "This is the best training in my 9 years of service in DepEd. This helped me in coping with my difficulties in life as well as my family especially my children and also to the school. It's a great help to our students coming from broken families. This made me build an ADVOCACY!"

    Jennibel Galagar, San Fernando District

Partner with us in creating more safe spaces for children by training more educators in using SEL to reinforce emotional support and positive well-being in the school community.

FUTURES THINKING

Futures Thinking is a mindset that considers potential futures through the exploration of trends and drivers for change and is critically considering the future so that we can better make decisions and take action in the present. Futures Thinking teacher training programs empower educators to create opportunities for students so that they are prepared to confront the complexity of real-world decision-making.

  • "It is a great opportunity to be part of this training as it gives an avenue to learn leading to innovation and continuously embrace the change specifically in the field of education."

    Teacher Marissa

Partner with us in preparing our educators toward the future of education and integrate them in their teaching and learning practice.

PBL is a dynamic approach where students undertake projects based on real-world context and problems, and implement their solutions beyond the classroom. The PBL process of inquiry- ideation- and feedback fosters independent learning, student ownership of his/her work, the development of 21st-century workplace skills.

 Thus, they learn that what they do in the classroom can make a positive impact in the world at large.

Project Based Learning

After School Programs

PLAY TO LEARN PROGRAM

In Mano Amiga, we believe in bringing joy back into learning. Founded in the belief that play boosts well-being for life, we implement the Play to Learn program that integrates play-based learning into the Mano Amiga curriculum for our lower school students. We partner with parents and teachers to give the students opportunities to have play that is meaningful, joyful, and actively engaging.

STEM WARRIORS CLUB

STEM has become a focus of Mano Amiga in recent years. With the Philippines consistently ranking low in math and science, there has been a need to further support the students learning in STEM. Through the STEM Warriors club, we are able to provide students ages 11-17 who want to explore the STEM world the support they need. Members will enjoy STEM challenges, meet-ups, conferences, field trips, and so much more. They will belong to a community and safe space of warriors where they can geek out and just be themselves.

  • "Thanks for the fun activities with many learnings. I am getting more and more into Science. Thanks also for the prizes that I always look out for."

    19 years old

  • "This club is doing really great. I am hoping that there will be more activities that will be face-to-face in the future."

    16 years old

STEM SUMMIT

Through the summit, students have the opportunity to discover and explore STEM career paths, learn from established women in the field, and build a supportive network to thrive in the world of STEM.

In 2022, the virtual summit was able to gain around 200+ student participants from 10 different schools in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

  • "The speakers provided a lot of information about their journeys and careers. I think that really helped us prepare for the possibilities when the time to choose our own career path comes."

    Isaac, 16 years old (Mindanao)

  • "The speakers were successful in their own fields and inspired the students with their insight. I hope there will be more events like these because even we, teachers, were enlightened."

    Teacher Rowena

LEARNING COMMUNITREE

Learning Communitree is part of the sustainability education program that focuses on topics about the environment and the Philippine landscape. It is a learning workshop for the Middle School students of Mano Amiga where they learn and appreciate the environmental resources that we enjoy as well as the strides that we make for the Filipino community to have more access to these resources along with its sustainability and protection.

Partner With Us

To learn more about our education programs, you may send an email to the Education Program Officer at bluga@manoamigaph.org.