First Lady knows the progress of the Education to Think project
Santo Domingo.- The First Lady of the Republic, Dr. Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, visited the facilities of the Fray Ramón Pané Basic School on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 27, where she learned about the progress of the “Education to think” project that since 2009 has coordinated the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), the Ministry of Education and the Teacher´s College of Columbia University in New York.
Cedeño de Fernández, shared with the children involved in the project and with the other students of the school, as well as with the directors and teachers.
The program in which 140 students from 5to and 6to participate in basic education, seeks that children get a macro view of what they can achieve in the future while transmitting aspects of other cultures and getting their interest in the positive aspects that These offer. Similarly improve their skills in science, mathematics and Spanish language with classes that integrate environment and engineering.
Students will be followed up in each learning area until they graduate from high school, when it is estimated that they can participate in the INTEC Program with Outstanding Students (PIES) to continue their higher education at said institution. The Teacher's College of Columbia University (New York) provides support in the development and improvement of thinking skills, both for students and teachers.
The visit was made in the framework of the donation of musical instruments so that the school can form its own band. This delivery is part of the Musical Bands project developed by the Office of the First Lady with the aim that students from schools, high schools and polytechnics of the country acquire the ability to sensitize the visual and tactile senses and with this develop their attention faculty.
Along with Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, there were also the rector of INTEC, Rolando Guzmán, the vice minister of Education, Susana Michel, and Hilario Urbano, director of the school.
On behalf of INTEC, Julio Sánchez Maríñez, vice-rector of Research and Liaison, Alfonso Casasnovas, vice-rector of Administration and Finance, Migdalia Martínez, dean of the Social Sciences and Humanities Area and Sandra González, coordinator of the Center for Educational Studies, met.