DANA POINT : Teacher’s China Trip to Focus on Reading
A sixth-grade teacher has been chosen to travel to China this month for a cross-cultural exchange of ideas about reading. Beverly Leyman, a 12-year veteran at Richard Henry Dana Elementary School, will join a team of educators on the two-week trip to Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai.
The Chinese Ministry of Education invited Leyman and the other delegates from the Citizen Ambassador Program of People to People International because they are interested in United States’ methods of reading instruction.
Since 1984, Leyman has been part of a network of reading educators at UC Irvine. She has also taught in UCI’s teacher education program and is writing prescriptions for teaching disabled students.
While in China, the U.S. delegates will discuss the state of reading instruction in the United States and China, standards and instructional accountability, methods and materials to increase literacy, responsibilities of literacy professionals and trends in literacy education.
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