The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Teaching is an art that is very difficult to master. It involves a lot of gray areas and nuances and it is extremely rare to find perfect teachers. Indeed, it might be extremely tough for one to become a perfect teacher, however following some guidelines might make one a better teacher than before. In my opinion, an effective method of teaching can not ignore the mistakes of a student and I discuss three reasons to justify my assertion.
First, if the student is not punished for his mistakes, he won't learn to not repeat them. Learning is a process of reinforcement: if you get a positive reward for doing something, you tend to repeat doing that, whereas if you get a negative reward, you try not to do the same thing again. This is the basic principle of learning found in nature. This is how all the animals teach their young ones and there is no reason for humans to not follow the same path. By only praising the positive actions, a student will surely learn to repeat that action but he will still continue to make the mistakes which are being ignored during the teaching process. Therefore, it is imperative that both positive as well as negative actions be rewarded suitably.
If the student in question is a young child being taught various life skills at home, punishing or reprimanding him for negative actions become even more important. Not keeping the child's behavior under control might end up making him domineering and difficult to deal with at a later stage. Furthermore, only giving positive rewards might make life look all too merry for the child, which will not prepare him well for what is to come later. Real life can be difficult in which one is punished harshly for all the mistakes. Not making a child learn this important lesson at an early age might make it difficult for him to cope at later stages of life. For example, the primary reason why so many students are seen crying in the first few days at school is because at home, all their whims were catered to, whereas in school, they are made to be disciplined, something they had not been taught before. They struggle to cope with the new atmosphere they find themselves in. This further emphasizes the importance of punishment during learning.
Even though I said that punishment plays an important part in the training process, excessive punishment might defeat the purpose of learning. That is why only a suitable punishment should be given. Going overboard with the punishment might take the fun part out of the learning process which makes it so effective in the first place. Especially in the beginning, some mistakes can be ignored to keep the student motivated. However, it would be foolish to take the punishment aspect out of the game completely. Giving controlled punishment is one of the factors that make teaching such a difficult profession to master. The best teachers in the schools are often the ones that balance punishment and reward properly.
In conclusion, punishment is an integral part of the learning process and adequate and suitable punishment is required to make the process effective. However, one should be judicious in handing out punishments so as to not ruin the fun of the process all together. Heeding to this advice might go a long way in improving one's teaching.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to find', 'to found'
Suggestion: to find; to found
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Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
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Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...be judicious in handing out punishments so as to not ruin the fun of the process all tog...
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...advice might go a long way in improving ones teaching.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, look, so, still, therefore, well, whereas, as to, for example, in conclusion, as well as, in my opinion, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2739.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 569.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81370826011 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88402711743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59927621728 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469244288225 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 846.9 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2677434249 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.8214285714 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3214285714 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 5.21951772744 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 18.0 5.13820224719 350% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172517419815 0.243740707755 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0448702992285 0.0831039109588 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0526728028472 0.0758088955206 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0946890394625 0.150359130593 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0846107954442 0.0667264976115 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.