Ms. Dixon traveled to Boston on Oct. 23-26 and attended a professional development opportunity for teachers hosted by SABEH.
SABEH stands for Sino-American Bridge for Education and Health.
For the past three summers, Ms. Dixon has traveled to China with SABEH. Each summer, the Boston-based non-profit organization takes approximately 20 American teachers to China. When the American SABEH teachers are in China, they work with Chinese teachers and share student-centric methods that are common in the United States, but still unfamiliar in China.
The professional development opportunity Ms. Dixon attended over the weekend focused on history of the American Revolution, cross-curricular lesson planning, and strategies of teaching English as a Second Language.
Boston was a key city of the American Revolution. During the time Ms. Dixon was in Boston, she and the other teachers walked Boston’s Freedom Trail and visited many sites including the first public school established in the United States, Paul Revere’s house, the Benjamin Franklin Statue, and the Massachusetts State House.
The teachers also visited several museums and Salem, the Boston suburb that is the birthplace of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. Salem is also the location where the Salem Witch Trials took place in the 1690’s.
SABEH has a partnership with Bryant University located in Smithfield, Rhode Island. More information about SABEH and the U.S. China Institute at Bryant University is here and here.
Here are some photos Ms. Dixon shared with the GHS web site.
First public school established in the United States
The Paul Revere house
In front of the Salem Witch Museum
Statue of Benjamin Franklin
Ms. Dixon and SABEH teachers, Massachusetts State House
The House of the Seven Gables in Salem, MA. With Brian Jacobs, an English teacher from Los Angeles, and Andrea Edson, who received her Ph.D. From Harvard.
Birthplace of the famous novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ms. Dixon with a historian from History Alive! Photo taken at the cemetery in Salem, MA, the same town where the Salem Witch Trials occurred in 1692.
