Dalton development in Poland

Last week two very successful conferences in Lódz and Warszawa.
Anna Sowinska, director of the 'school4child', was host of 60 participants at the conference in Lódz.
The school is invited to be member of Dalton International and such
an invitation was also given to Kindergarten No 31 'Zdzisław Witwicki'
in Warszawa.
A delegation of 12 teachers from Ukraine participated in the Warszawa
conference together with 94 teachers from Poland and Slovakia.
PaedDr. Monika Minová from the University in Presov / SK wants to
restart the co-operation with Dalton International.

Dalton in Poland

Tomorrow Hans Wenke and I go to Poland.
On Wenesday we will introduce Dalton education during a seminar
in Lódz, and on Thursday we give lectures and workshops at the
first Polish Dalton conference in Warsaw.
Dalton co-ordinator for Poland is Anna Wröbel, she is also the
national representative in OMEP

QUOTE

Teachers nowadays can be happy that children don't bring
a remote control to school, because they would be 'zapped away'
during instruction before they realize !

In this context:
Homo Zappiens - Wim Veen

New Member Dalton International

This week Vladimir Moskvan was here and he 'shadowed' my program.
We spoke with Wim Kooyman, editor of our books.
Hans Wenke and I are writing a new book in German:
"Dalton Plan Pädagogik"
eine praktische Unterstützung für Lehrer
Together with Vladimir we spoke about the possibility to translate
our latest book "Dalton, do it differently" into the Czech language.

Yesterday we presented the official plaque to one of the new
Members of Dalton International, de Delftse Dalton School

International Dalton Conference

This week Vladimir Moskvan is here to prepare with me the
next Conference of Dalton International and the new
Magazine of Dalton International.
The conference is on May 4. 2010 in Brno / Czech Republic.
Theme of the conference and the connected magazine :
'Dalton in a practical way'

School management or school leadership

School management is to be efficient in climbing the ladder of success.
School leadership is putting the ladder against the correct wall.
from:
Does schools need leaders / AVS - Kader Primair - jaargang 15 nr. 1
see also:
NPBS

The Dalton Laboratory Plan

"In the past we have concentrated on the teaching of learning.
It was assumed that the teacher's duty was to do the work and
consequently the whole business of education was regarded from the
teacher's standpoint. . .
No wonder the pupil's mind invariably escaped from the class-room
into the outside world where a hundred invisible teachers waited
for him, teachers whom he felt instinctively held the answer to
all he longed to know. . .
The curriculum is dead without the live motive power of the child,
it must work by boy and girl power".

from : Helen Parkhurst
An Explanation of the Dalton Laboratory Plan
1926 Dalton Association
London