HAPPY NEW YEAR

 WENZHOU DALTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sent us wishes for the New Year.

TODAY

 

 

Christmas wishes from Wenzhou

Children from Wenzhou Dalton Elementary school were writing Christmas wishes to their partner school in the United Kingdom.
I like to share one of them here.

DALTON TRAINING SHENZHEN DALTON XINHUA SCHOOL

 

The DALTON HANDBOOK

We are  proud to present the cover of The Dalton Handbook prepared by Dalton coordinators from Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School ✍️.

📓 The Dalton Handbook is a unique school document with the structure  introduced by Dalton International in every International Dalton School.

👩‍🏫 The Dalton Handbook contains a lot of practical visualization on an innovative Dalton practice with our own practical ideas.

📓In The Dalton Handbook we included among others:

📌How to implement an asset model of teaching?

📌How to arrange learner driven feedback?

📌How to engage self-referential assessment?

📌How to implement a model of a Dalton Learner’s Agency?

📌How to engage Dalton Teacher Agency?

📌Who is a Dalton Agentive Learner?

📌How to shape children's social behaviours?

📌Cognitive factors?

📌Awareness?

📌Beliefs and attitude?

WEBINAR WITH DALTON COLLEGE IZMIR

Sarah Money writes:
“A great workshop was held with Paul Bruijn and the Dalton International mentor group from Dalton College Izmir. We reflected and evaluated our return back to school for both our students and teachers. Plans were made for the next workshop and new goals were set. Thank you to Paul for coaching and guiding us and thank you to the Dalton International team for their continuous support”. 

  

90 years Dutch Dalton Association

 

Webinar with Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School

Upcoming Dalton International activities: online audit of Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School. In response to Covid -19, we have decided to conduct an online audit in the school. The meeting concerning the matter took place today. The board members of Dalton International together with headmaster of the school Mrs. Bai Lili, director of Likeda Education Group Caroline Zhang and two Dalton coordinators Sophie Pan and Marcy Yu discussed today the ways of planning and organizing an online audit in the school. Together we were planning the online and live upcoming activities for the year 2022. We can soon finally plan so much in person and online. Sharing our work, vision and common achievements for the upcoming period. Luckily, we still found the ways to connect across the world.

JUBILEE CONFERENCE OF THE DUTCH DALTON ASSOCIATION

 

New book about Dalton education

 With pleasure we are presenting the cover of our book “Dalton Plan: a child’s lifetime experience” written by me and Agata Röhner. The cover was designed by children from Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School. The book has a theoretical and practical character. Our goal is to show the importance  of the Dalton Plan worldwide, taking into account cultural background as well as different policies and potentials of the Dalton schools across the world.  Moreover, we seek to examine the significance of using the Dalton Plan in everyday school life, so that the main goal would be to focus on mutual learning, socialization and experience as the basis of a social school life.

The book will be published in the publishing house of Northeast Normal University in China in Chinese language.

The premiere of the book will take place during the official International Dalton Conference in China in November 2022.

WENZHOU DALTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

 Children in Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School took part in an astronomy project in cooperation with academic centres. The project aimed mainly at giving students a "real life experience" and encourage them to feel like a professional astronaut.

The Likeda Education Satellite starts its expedition towards the JiuQuan launch site, and the 'Space STEAM Organization' receiving an award "Members of the Dalton STEAM Space Organization" researching and studying "Cubic Star" knowledge at Nanjing Science and Engineering University. They also successfully assembled a cubic star of their own. All students gazing in anticipation at the 'satellite revealing' ceremony for the launch of the satellite towards the Jiuquan launch site. All the students in the school theatre were listening to a speech by the deputy team leader of the overall design team of the first generation of contributors to the "Oriental Red Number 1" Chinese Space project. He was specially engaged by Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School as a consultant expert for the  "Space STEAM Organization".

Dalton International is proud and honoured to stimulate all initiatives aimed at giving children real life experience and learn the world on their own way.

Sternschule Deutschlandsberg Austria

Sternschule Deutschlandsberg has once again re-opened its doors after the summer break for its excited students and growing team! Among many known happy faces we have many new fresh ones having joined us this year. We now have 89 children attending our school and this including ten new first graders. One has to say there is truly something special about starting a new school year. There is always that expectation and vital energy that makes everyone feel the positive vibrations in the air. After a seemingly disruptive and in many ways not easy last school year, due to covid restrictions and several lockdowns, we are now looking positively and hopefully that this year will bless us with health and staying strong. We are aware of the continued restrictions that are present all over the world, such as wearing masks outside the classroom for instance, however as long as we can attend school, continue learning and have normality settle back in, that is all we wish for. That is all the children wish too, to see their teachers and friends and to be able to communicate, play and learn together.

 

It is wonderful to be back inside the walls of our school, such joy for the children to see their friends and greet their teachers. We were finally able to start our Erasmus project with a school from Slovenia. The name of the project is Promote Your Neighbour! Our kids will travel to Slovenia where they will connect with their peers through several activities aimed at improving their IT, language and social skills.

 

Many new faces among our team too, which is also exhilarating for everyone! Children have already settled in after the first few weeks and are ready for their Dalton education plans, organised and productive and very noticeably full of motivation! We have new subjects rooms set up for the children and this has brought much satisfaction, curiosity and motivation! To see the children learning self-organisation, responsibility and consideration as the progress of their work is rewarding and moving. Here is to a successful new school year!

 

DALTON SCHOOL IN AMMERN IS GROWING

Dalton International is wishing a brilliant team from International Dalton School in Thuringen, Germany a healthy  and delightful New Dalton Year. It is wonderful to see smiling staff and children coming back to school. The energy among the team and children is always amazing. The children seem very happy to be back at school, playing with friends, organizing their own time in Dalton agendas. Seeing new  children coming for the first time to school  hungry for learning has been inspiring for us. We are confident that a Dalton education is perfectly implemented in your school. Self-motivation, confidence, responsibility and reflection are a base for lifelong love of learning.

We are looking forward to seeing you all again soon….

Claudia Zanker, Director of the school wrote:

The school year starts with 183 children and a lot of fun with our 43 freshmen. The team has continued to expand - now learning 9 classes at our school and learning is supervised by NIKE - our school dog.

The pleasure of regular lessons according to the schedule is very nice for everyone after the past year! 

 

What an incredible year is in front of us. The year of new opportunities, new initiatives. In front of us the year of sharing our work, our passion, our vision and our achievements.  Thanks to the Dalton Plan we still find ways to connect across the world, we are grateful to all International Dalton Schools for their commitment, engagement, sharing their Dalton experience and expertise. Thanks to you, we can continue Parkhurst legacy. Undoubtedly, we  have recently met some challenges because of a global pandemic, which has forced us to adapt the online way we train and teach. Although the pandemic period, we are providing continuous support for the schools and parents. Our focus is to ensure the Dalton education accessible for every child in every corner of the world. Dalton education remains the inclusive, accepting education for children and adults of all abilities, and all cultures. To achieve this, we remain open to learning, listening and understanding the needs of all communities that are struggling to implement Dalton education.

We are honoured to spread the legacy of Helen Parkhurst across the world. At the same time, we bear in mind that thanks to her strong character and will she was able to achieve a huge success as just one individual, spreading her ideas and ground breaking work in universal education on a global scale. We are pleased to continue to support her work and demonstrate the amazing impact of Dalton education.

Every human being has the power to make a difference and if we can do it together – cooperating, sharing, supporting, learning from each other, listening to each other, the difference and impact may be enormous.

As a Dalton International community, it is our solemn duty to  cooperate, share and spread the legacy of Helen Parkhurst. Today, we are pleased to wish all the International Dalton Schools across the world a meaningful school year, full of hope and good initiatives. May this year be for you special and full of inspiration. We wish you all, a healthy and successful school year with the same motto as always: Go forth unafraid!

Roel Röhner,

President Dalton International

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Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School

Dr. Agata Sowinska is guiding the Dalton school in Wenzhou.

During the last months RESPONSIBILITY was the topic and the work target for the team of teachers.

Here examples made by two of the groups. They wrote about their tasks and responsibilities.

20 YEARS DALTON INTERNATIONAL

DALTONVISIE is the magazine of the Dutch Dalton Association.

In the latest number an article written by Rene Berends and Roel Röhner about 'Twenty Years Dalton International'.

WENZHOU DALTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

A collage made by this International Dalton School

DALTON COLLEGE IZMIR

Click under the photo on the link to see a presentation of the school.

Short presentation of the school 

Protecting the quality of Dalton education

 

The quality Dalton school provides the appropriate environment for the development of students and the effectiveness of the school. The school’s vision is consistent with Helen Parkhurst philosophy of efficiency, enterprising living and working, responsibility, interaction of a group life, and the learning by experience.
Dalton International is aimed at continuous development of their schools. The training by International Dalton Consultants and regular contact with the Executive Director of Dalton International is a quality assurance process that is designed to help schools to continuously develop and improve their Dalton Plan in practice. It consists of an ongoing program of support, guidance and improvement of the school and all its staff members worldwide. This ensures that schools accredited by Dalton International continue to embody the highest Dalton education standards. 

We discovered that abroad even people without any experience in Dalton education and without official certificate are operating as ‘Dalton Consultant’ or ‘Dalton specialist’. It happens that Kindergarten and Elementary schools after two or three workshops get the ‘official predicate Dalton’. Dalton International doesn’t want to be associated with such a process, because this damages the  high status of Dalton education worldwide.

To give one example, obtaining a Dalton license takes in the Netherlands between three and five years. Schools must be member of the Dutch Dalton Association. The Association requires schools to be able to submit a timetable plan and a Dalton Development Plan for that whole implementation period. High qualified Dutch Dalton Consultants are guiding the school during that implementation process.   

ONLY THESE SCHOOLS ARE INTERNATIONAL DALTON SCHOOLS

 

NEW COOPERATION

 

Together with 'CZECH DALTON' and the 'MAZARYK UNIVERSITY' 

we are preparing the next International Dalton Conference in Brno.

WORLDWIDE DALTON NETWORK

We take care of a worldwide network of high class 'INTERNATIONAL DALTON SCHOOLS'.

JUBILEE SHENZHEN DALTON XINHUA SCHOOL

 It was a great pleasure to contribute with a short lecture to the Jubilee Session in the International Dalton School in Shenzhen/China.

We will be back in Shenzhen in autumn of this year to continue the Dalton process.

RENEWED SITE DALTONMEDIA

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JUBILEE DALTON CONFERENCE

THIS CONFERENCE WILL TAKE PLACE AT SEVERAL DIFFERENT DALTON SCHOOLS IN THE NETHERLANDS.

DALTON BOARD GAME

This is a board game for the Dalton team process.
Devide the team of teachers in small groups and find together the answers on questions, strategies or dilemmas. 

ONLINE INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE

Although we had some technical problems, more than 100 participants followed our presentations.

 

Turkey is participating in the online conference

 

PPT ready.
I am looking forward to meet so many colleagues from different countries.

THURSDAY 13TH MAY 2021

 

NEW SITE 'DALTON MEDIA'

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DALTON HANDBOOK

The DALTON HANDBOOK has more than 150 worksheets which can be used during International Dalton training sessions and workshops.