June 30, 2014
June 22, 2014
June 21, 2014
The quality makers of education
Educational governance can be an instrument to have
influence on the quality of education.
And the most important question is: who is responsible
for the quality of education?
My simple answer is: the teachers in the classroom.
Those are the professionals, the facilitators, the
pedagogues, the coaches, the quality
makers.
But in the daily practice in the school, a
heterogeneous group, any team of quality makers is still not a guarantee for
good education.
Such a heterogeneous group of teachers look like a
beautiful archipelago, a group of nice isles but a lot of water in between and very
complicated to connect.
When a director of a school wants to have influence on
the educational quality of the whole school, he/she must focus on the task of
educational leadership.
There must be a professional division in two main tasks:
the management (how complex it may be) and the educational leadership.
If the director of the school wants to be a quality
maker too, he/she must leave the office
frequently to observe the processes and to work on the
floor.
See my whole article on the website of Dalton International under ARTICLES
June 19, 2014
June 18, 2014
The Dalton Plan in the elementary school
Some
statements from this brochure, written by
A.J.Lynch Headmaster, West Green School, Tottenham, N.15.
The
relation between teacher and taught is a wrong relation.
The teacher
should be the helper, not the driver; the pursued, not the pursuer.
The advent
of the Dalton Plan and the interest shown
in it by teachers in all parts of the world are sure signs that teachers
realise the weaknesses of the old class methods and are seeking earnestly to
remedy them.
It is not
sufficient that the assignment be a mere reference to text-books, it needs the
Dalton touch and the Dalton spirit. Apart from the work to which the assignment
refers, the assignment itself should be interesting, attractive and helpful.
The ideal
assignment is, of course, an individual assignment for each child.
The brochure from 1926 was published by
THE DALTON ASSOCIATION
London
June 17, 2014
Development of study skills
This is one example from a series of special action strategies for pupils.
I have developed several tools for pupils, connected to different instructional methods used by the teacher.
The entire series has been published in a booklet for Dutch pupils named "Opzoekboekje".
This booklet can be ordered by mail HERE
June 16, 2014
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