daltoninformatie uitwisseling

For the Estonian pupils:
what are your questions about education on the daltonplan?

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Slide 1: Open question

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This lesson contains 17 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

Lesson duration is: 60 min

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For the Estonian pupils:
what are your questions about education on the daltonplan?

Slide 1 - Open question

Slide 2 - Video

Slide 3 - Slide

Dalton Education is OLD

Developed by Helen Parkhurst (1886-1973)

Started in Waterville, Wisconsin USA in 1904

Started in the Netherlands in The Hague in 1925

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Dalton Education is BIG

in the Netherlands...

more than 350 Dalton Primary Schools (age 4-12)

31 secondary Dalton Schools (age 12-18)

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What did Helen Parkhurst say?

Dalton is no method, no system, it's an influence!

The true business of school is not to chain the pupil to preconceived ideas, but to set him free to discover his own ideas.

Freedom is a gift. How to deal with it a responsibility.

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Dalton education is about...

learning how to

handle freedom
work independently
work in groups with mutual dependence
to reflect
learn/study efficiently

Slide 9 - Slide

For the Spinoza-pupils: what does dalton education mean to you?

Slide 10 - Open question

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The best daltonschool?

The dalton system, the dalton student, the dalton teacher, the daltonschool do not exist.

Education on the dalton plan is about a vision which can be put in practice in many different ways.

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Why dalton and exchange?

skip school

visit Amsterdam without parents

learn how to be responsible, independent and socialize

eat a lot of cheese

Slide 15 - Quiz

Exchange program Spinoza Lyceum 2025-2026

Erasmus +

Leipzig, Bonn, Ibiza, Kopenhagen, Nantes, Vicenza, Olympia,

Leoben (AUT), Salamanca, Tartu (EST), Barcelona, Sevilla

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Did you get an answer to your question?

Slide 17 - Open question