Dalton Plan
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The Dalton Plan is an educational concept created by Helen Parkhurst.
Inspired by the intellectual ferment at the turn of the 19th century, educational thinkers such as Maria Montessori and John Dewey began to cast a bold vision of a new progressive approach to education. Helen Parkhurst, the teacher who had actually taught the Gold medal winning glass-enclosed Montessori classroom at the San Francisco Exposition, after splitting with Montessori, caught the spirit of change and created the Dalton Plan, aiming to achieve a balance between each child's talents and the needs of the growing American community.
Specifically, she had these objectives: to tailor each student's program to his or her needs, interests and abilities; to promote both independence and dependability; to enhance the student's social skills and sense of responsibility toward others. Parkhurst developed a three-part plan that continues to be the structural foundation of a Dalton education—the House, the Assignment, and the Laboratory.
The Dalton Plan takes its name from an early trial of the system at the High School of Dalton, Massachusetts in 1920.[1]
Today, The Dalton School educates students in accordance with some of the precepts of the Dalton Plan developed by Helen Parkhurst.
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[edit] Schools
Today there are only a small number of schools around the world that still utilise the Dalton Plan method of teaching. They are:[2]
- Ascham School, Sydney, Australia
- Europaschule, Wien, Austria
- Shanghai East Century School, Shanghai, China
- ZŠ a MŠ Chalabalova, Brno, Czech Republic
- ZŠ a MŠ Husova, Brno, Czech Republic
- ZŠ a MŠ Křídlovick, Brno, Czech Republic
- ZŠ a MŠ Mutĕnická, Brno, Czech Republic
- ZŠ Rájec-Jestřebí, Czech Republic
- Gymnázium Slovanské námĕstí, Brno, Czech Republic
- ZŠ Benešova Třebíč, Czech Republic
- Základní škola, Brno, Czech Republic
- Základní škola Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
- Általános Iskola, Győrszemere, Hungary
- Millington Primary School, Portadown, Northern Ireland
- Dalton School, Tokyo, Japan
- Dalton School, Kobe, Japan
- Dalton School, Nagoya, Japan
- Helen Parkhurst college, Almere, Netherlands
- Dalton basisschool de Twijn, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Dalton basisschool Rijnsweerd, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Schooladviescentrum, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Katholieke Daltonschool De Leeuwerik, Leiderdorp, Netherlands
- Wenke Dalton Consultancy, Meppel, Netherlands
- Daltonschool De Klipper, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Netherlands
- Daltonexpertisecentrum, Instituut Theo Thijssen, Hogeschool, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Saxion Hogeschool, Deventer, Netherlands
- Stedelijk Daltoncollege, Zutphen, Netherlands
- De Achtbaan, Amersfoort, Netherlands
- De Klinker, Schiedam, Netherlands
- Dalton School 1080, Moscow, Russia
- The Dalton School, New York, United States
- Dalton Den Haag, Den Haag, Netherlands
[edit] See also
- J. G. Jeffreys, who introduced the Dalton Plan at Bryanston School, the first English school to use the approach.
[edit] References
- ^ Parkhurst, Helen (1922). Education On The Dalton Plan. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, pp. 15–16. Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
- ^ Members. Dalton International. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
[edit] External links
- Dewey, Evelyn (1922). The Dalton Laboratory Plan. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company. Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
- The Dalton School Homepage
