Homework's exhibition in Wenzhou International Dalton School

 🔔This week is the Homework's Exhibition Week in Wenzhou. A school's exhibition builds excitement for sharing, reflecting and socializing.

💡Students designed their own exhibition and could see the other's.
After that, they did a group reflection on what they have seen📋.

Video made by: Caroline Zhang

No more spoon feeding in the eyes of Shenzhen Dalton Xinhua School

 The summary of "Independency" training with the team of teachers from Shenzhen Dalton Xinhua School was visualized below in the form of a poster. The poster will be published in a school newspaper and displayed in the School's Dalton International Exhibition Room.

The process of implementation of Independency was worked out in the school into the concrete form. In order to optimize the children's independency, the team of teachers is developing and implementing their common path of self-directed learning.

Personalized learning and stimulating children's intrinsic motivation are demonstrated in everyday school life.

Innovative English School Section in Shenzhen Dalton School

    English section of Shenzhen Xinhua Dalton School is actively promoting innovations in ELT. The English Experimental School in Shenzhen has been actively working with “Let’s Daltonize English” for already third year. 

Let’s Daltonize English is a set of 150 free choice assignments based on a structure of: 

📌Multiple Intelligences 

📌Bloom’s taxonomy in a cognitive domain.

📒In this issue of “Dalton Times”, the children's assignments from "Let's Daltonize English" were published. Children’s task was to solve the real life problem in the form of a short story, poster, presentation or a short drama, in case of an older children class debate. Children are free to choose the way they would like to make an assignment. The idea of the project is to promote and engage constructive learning with the key elements such as: 

📚reflection;

📚ownership;

📚solving authentic problem; 

📚collaborative learning; 

📚peer assessment, 

📚deriving from previous experience to construct the new knowledge. 

By solving global issues from different scientific fields, children learn not only the new vocabulary, but also think constructively and critically.✍📓🧑‍

Every child is unique, every child is excellent....

⭐️What factors make Chinese Dalton schools so special? 

 During my last session with Shenzhen Dalton Xinhua School the teacher's answer on one of the most important aspects of Independency was self-discipline of the children. 

 ⭐️What makes a Chinese Dalton vision so unique? 

In Shenzhen Xinhua Dalton School, most of all: 

 ✅Combining Dalton Education with Chinese Characters; 

 ✅Fostering children to integrate into a globalized world;

 ✅"4C" Skills (Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Communication, Innovation, Cooperation);   ✅Development of children's talents; 

 ✅Mixed Age Family Management; 

 ✅Personalized Evaluation and reflection; 

 ✅Considerate Life Experience; 

 ✅Contract Learning method; 

 ✅Every child is unique; 

 ✅Every Child is excellent 

 

The Dalton Handbook of Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School

I am proud to present the cover of The Dalton Handbook prepared by Dalton coordinators from Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School. The Dalton Handbook is a unique school document with the structure introduced by Dalton International in every International Dalton School. The Dalton Handbook contains a lot of practical visualization on an innovative Dalton practice with our own practical ideas. In The Dalton Handbook we included among others: How to implement an asset model of teaching? How to arrange learner driven feedback? How to engage self-referential assessment? How to implement a model of a Dalton Learner’s Agency? How to engage Dalton Teacher Agency? Who is a Dalton Agentive Learner? How to shape children's social behaviors? Cognitive factors? Awareness? Beliefs and attitude?