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on February 22, 2023

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Liv: Hey y'all! My name is Olivia Phillips, and I am a student at the University of Tennessee pursing a career in Agriculture Education!

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Educational Blogging : The End

This time I have spent blogging has been a great learning experience. I have enjoyed reading my fellow classmates' opinions on a variety of subjects and have read blogs from several teaching pathways such as Music Education, Pre-K, and Agriculture, like myself. Whether you are a teacher expressing opinions or a student writing for a class, educational blogging helps develop analytical thinking and promote a higher learning level where we must put our knowledge into thoughts. This also spreads knowledge and awareness of many educational topics to people who may have never been introduced to those ideas before. Cartoon hands typing on a keyboard. Like I mentioned above, I have had a great time reading my peers' blog posts throughout the past several weeks and have learned so much from them! Three blogs in particular stood out to me, and I found them extremely useful and important. The first blog post was by Madeline St. Clair on her blog, Playing is Learning. In one o...

The New Generation and Agriculture Education

The world population is predicted to reach 9.7 billion by the year 2050. With that increase, agriculture production must increase to feed this growing population. Yet, we still have children avoiding agriculture classes because of a stereotype associated with the agriculture industry. Children observing and working in a greenhouse How can we get this new generation of students interested in agriculture and better prepare us for the future? The answer to this question tends to have a more complex answer but is actually very simple. Students need to be in agriculture classes in order to see the driving force behind our state, country, and world. With a stigma that agriculture classes are only for kids who grew up on a farm or kids who want to be a vet, students do not realize the opportunities that lie ahead of them by participating in agriculture education. In some school systems, these students have the opportunity to be involved in agricultur...

The Home and The School

Student studying at desk There is a serious question often asked when students struggle, excel, or lack overall interest and dedication to their schoolwork: What is their environment at home? This is a pretty evident topic that teachers must pay attention to when observing students’ behavior in the classroom. Although it is not necessarily always the case, there often is a correlation between the family or home environment and the students’ academic success. According to the study "Relationship Between Family Environment and Academic Achievement," it was clear that better family environments lead to higher cognitive development of a child, and as the family environment increase. the academic achievement of the student also increases (Khatoon and Sharma, 2021). This is not solely a financial issue within a household but can be the involvement of parents in their child's learning process. For example, do parents push homework and study time before televis...

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