Chapter 11- Teaming

I loved the comment in this chapter that: “the real world is not compartmentalized, so giving students integrated learning experiences will prepare them to be successful when they leave school”. I feel that as teachers we should be making the classroom simulate the real world as much as possible. By integrating all subject areas I can see how there would be so many benefits. Not only would it be easier on students to write a paper in one class and have it count in another class as well, cutting down on the student workload, it would also allow students to be thinking about similar concepts all day long and these concepts would become ingrained. For example, if in history class students were learning about the revolution and independence, and if in English class students were reading documents from the revolution or books about that era, in math they were practicing mathematics that was studied at that time period, and in science they were trying out or studying Benjamin Franklin’s inventions than students would get multiple different perspectives and ideas about this time period and they would be thinking about the Revolutionary era all day long for a couple weeks. Add in some cool activities or fun simulations pertaining to that topic and the information will probably stick will almost all the students a lot longer than it would have otherwise!