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The Dalton Plan is an educational concept created by Helen Parkhurst. It is inspired by the intellectual ferment at the turn of the 20th century.[not verified in body] Educational thinkers such as Maria Montessori and John Dewey influenced Parkhurst while she created the Dalton Plan. Their aim was to achieve a balance between a child's talent and the needs of the community.[not verified in body]

Characteristics

Parkhurst's specific objectives were as follows:[1][page needed][non-primary source needed]

  1. To tailor each student's program to his or her needs, interests and abilities.
  2. To promote each student's independence and dependability.
  3. To enhance the student's social skills.
  4. To increase their sense of responsibility toward others.

She developed a three-part plan that continues to be the structural foundation of a Dalton education:[1][page needed][non-primary source needed]

  1. The House, a social community of students.
  2. The Assignment, a monthly goal which students contract to complete.
  3. The Laboratory, a subject-based classrooms intended to be the center of the educational experience. The laboratory involves students from fourth grade through the end of secondary education.

Students move between subject "laboratories" (classrooms) and explore themes at their own pace.[citation needed]

Introduction in UK

In 1920, an article describing the working of the Dalton Plan in detail was published in the Times' Educational Supplement. Parkhurst "has given to the secondary school the leisure and culture of the University student; she has uncongested the curriculum; she has abolished the teacher's nightly preparation of classes and the child's nightmare of homework. At the same time the children under her regime cover automatically all the ground prescribed for examinations 'of matriculation standard,' and examination failures among them are nil."[2]

The Dalton Plan is a method of education by which pupils work at their own pace, and receive individual help from the teacher when necessary. There is no formal class instruction. Students draw up time-tables and are responsible for finishing the work on their syllabuses or assignments. Students are also encouraged to help each other with their work. The underlying aim of the Dalton Plan is to achieve the highest mental, moral, physical and spiritual development of the pupil.[citation needed]

In the spring of 1921, English headmistress Rosa Bassett went to the Children's University School and stayed with Parkhurst. They spent hours talking about education. Parkhurst found Bassett in complete agreement with her ideas: "She was Dalton," Parkhurst wrote 50 years later. She described Bassett and Belle Rennie as the two people in England who were most enthusiastic and most helpful about the introduction of the Dalton Plan. Rosa Bassett was instrumental in the first application of the Dalton Plan of teaching within an English secondary school. She contributed a chapter to Parkhurst's book on the Plan,[3]

It was in 1922 that the UK Board of Education gave official approval and many hundreds of schools in England adopted some form of the Dalton Plan. That same year Parkhurst published Education on the Dalton Plan. In time it was claimed that there were a thousand "Dalton" schools in Japan, another thousand in India, and many in the Soviet Union, Poland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.[citation needed]

Schools

List of schools

Australia

Austria

  • Europaschule, Wien
  • HTBL Lastenstraße, Klagenfurt
  • Internationale Daltonschule mit IT-Schwerpunkt Wels

Belgium

  • Basisschool De Kleine Icarus, Gent
  • Basisschool De Lotus, Gent
  • Basisschool Dalton 1 Hasselt
  • Basisschool Dalton 2 Hasselt
  • Middelbare Dalton school VanVeldeke Hasselt
  • Het Leerlabo, kleuter-, lager en secundair daltononderwijs, Westerlo[4]
  • Dalton Middenschool Lyceum, Gent

China

Czech Republic

  • ZŠ a MŠ Chalabalova, Brno
  • ZŠ a MŠ Husova, Brno
  • ZŠ a MŠ Křídlovick, Brno
  • ZŠ a MŠ Mutĕnická, Brno
  • ZŠ Rájec-Jestřebí
  • Gymnázium Slovanské námĕstí, Brno
  • ZŠ Benešova Třebíč
  • Základní škola, Brno
  • Základní škola Brno, Brno

Germany

India

Global School, Rahuri. MH

Japan

In Japan, Admiral Osami Nagano introduced a progressive educational method such as the Dalton plan to the Japanese Naval Academy School and influenced it.

Korea

Netherlands

Poland

  • Academy International, Warsaw

Russia

United Kingdom

United States

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Dewey, Evelyn. The Dalton Laboratory Plan. New York, NY: E.P. Dutton.[page needed][non-primary source needed]
  2. ^ May 27, 1920, article in the Times' Educational Supplement
  3. ^ Parkhurst, Helen (1922). Education On The Dalton Plan. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company. pp. 175–195. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
  4. ^ Het Leerlabo, Website
  5. ^ Angell Akademie, Website
  6. ^ Gymnasium Alsdorf, Website
  7. ^ Grundschule Unstruttal, Website
  8. ^ Marie-Kahle-Gesamtschule, Website
  9. ^ Albrecht-Dürer-Gymnasium, Website
  10. ^ Schillerschule Erfurt, Website
  11. ^ Gymnasium Essen-Überruhr, Website
  12. ^ https://igh-heidelberg.com/ueber-uns/dalton-konzept, Website (German)
  13. ^ Gymnasium Lage, Website
  14. ^ http://www.debakelgeert.nl
  15. ^ https://brederodedalton.nl/
  16. ^ http://www.casimirschool.nl
  17. ^ "Badley, John Haden (1865–1967), headmaster". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47647. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  18. ^ "Cecile McLachlan; Artist, teacher and inspiration for St Trinian's". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  19. ^ Kean, Hilda. "Bonwick, Theodora Ellen". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63836. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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