The educational project `Non-Cognitive Skills Educate for Being ', directed by the professor of the University of Murcia Ildefonso Méndez, has been chosen by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development?
(OECD) to assess its inclusion in the global list of relevant projects to stimulate the development of children's self-regulation skills.
This project aims to improve self-control of emotions and social behavior of children from four years of age until the end of Primary Education.
Some of the skills on which work is the inhibition of impulses, working memory, cognitive flexibility or the postponement of rewards, all cataloged as crucial to improve the welfare of children, as well as to promote educational inclusion and social of those students with learning difficulties or special educational needs.
'Non Cognitive Skills Educate to Be' began to be implemented in twenty schools in the Region of Murcia two years ago and, currently, is present in 45 schools in the Region, 30 schools in the Community of Madrid and 5 schools in La Rioja .
Next year, the project will be launched in schools in Argentina and the United States.
Source: Universidad de Murcia