Non-cognitive skills, which can contribute to human well-being and socioeconomic achievement, have continued to attract attention domestically and internationally in recent years. Non-cognitive skills are a cluster of psychological characteristics and include the Big Five personality traits–extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness–as their core. The present paper calls the non-cognitive skills as the socio-emotional competence and aims to organize its concept from the three perspectives of self-, task-, and other-oriented domains. Next, the present paper summarizes what is known so far about educational interventions to improve social-emotional competence. There has been not so much evidence regarding the effects of the educational interventions to social-emotional competence. The present paper tries to summarize the way of the educational interventions and their effects despite of the limited evidence. Then, this paper discusses their challenges and future prospects. Finally, the pros and cons of improving socio-emotional competence using the educational intervention programs are raised and the points to consider when implementing the educational interventions are discussed.

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