I am a dual endorsement major, my topic areas are in Health and History. My classroom would vary depending on my subject. I believe in teaching using different methods that help kids that vary within their own learning styles. Kids don't learn strictly through lecture and bookwork, with all of the available resources and technologies that are present I truly believe utilizing these different resources will build stronger learners in the classroom.
In my History classroom, I would put up different sections in the classroom that covered different time periods, I would also have interactive guides that would immerse the students in the time period and provide them with a visual understanding of the period. I would have students get in teams and use the support network with their teams and cover different periods. Computers, ipods, and music would be incorporated into class, I would have an ipod touch for every student that would have apps applying to the history curriculum.
In my Health classroom, this would be ideal for different information systems and I would have interactive links that hooked up to other classrooms and students would be able to communicate with one another. This would open up resources outside of the classroom, I would want hook ups to the health department and to doctors so that they could provide students with more information other than the teacher would be able to provide. I would utilize the fact that kids do talk to their peers and they do communicate with other people to gather information. I would have a peer system that they could submit information into that would be censored and gone through electronically that would provide answers to the kids questions.
I really like the ideas of kids utilizing technology and their peers, this gives them the chance to build on knowledge of others and use technology to improve their understanding of the concepts taught in the classroom, it would be an environment that would be fun and uplifting as well as educational for the students.
