Gee's Principle Blog Assignment

I have chosen the following three principles "Discovery Principle", "Practice Principle", "Critical Learning Principle" because I feel like they are the most important principles to my personal learning and that my students may also bennefit from these three principles also.
 "Discovery Principle" is one of the principles that I chose because I feel that discovering a subject is more important than a subject just being delivered to a student.  A student can get a well rounded concept of a subject by discovering the topic.  It also allows for individualism.  Some students simply approach topics differently and learn them differently and this gives them and advantage to learning.
"Practice Principle" reminds me of the old saying "practice makes perfect". While this is an old saying it is also a very true and effective principlet to follow. Practicing a topic over and over and following repitition until it is almost natural to a student makes retaining the information a much easier task.
"Critical Learning Principle" helps the student to be motivated in a positive way. When you promote a more postive atmosphere for your children they will be more relaxed and this may assist you in helping the student to learn more. We all can agree that when we are nervous, pressured, or scared of saying the wrong thing, we seem to not perform as well as if we were relaxed.

The simulation I would create would be to give my student actual circumstances that may happen in life and see how they would approach that situation and what reasoning that they would use to solve the issue that may be handed to them. I am an Agricultural Edcation major so my students may be dealing with a number of tasks on a daily basis. For example I may ask my students if they were judging a livestock show and they were to have to pick the best animal by appearence only what qualitys they may look for in that animal to be the determining factor in the way that they will place that animal in the show. I will bring this information to them and help then to rationalize their answer and discover the tacts used in livestock juging and quality.

In conclusion I feel that the principles given are very effective way of presenting material to students no matter what the subject may be. It would be hard to go wrong by giving your students a positive atmostphere, helping the to explore their subjects, and practicing repetively with them on the topics learned.  I would learn this way and I am almost certain that young learning students in a classroom would also effectively learn this way.

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