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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing and sup

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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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

The statement seems all encompassing to me, there are many other ways to also teach, much of which depends on curricula, student audience and assessment. To a certain extent, I do agree that those who study hard need praise; it is only human that positive feedback encourages a person towards repeating something desirable. However, there are students or circumstances necessitating other teaching pedagogy or ignoring negative acts: sometimes a teacher needs to consider other factors like the learning environment, learning outcomes and course curricula.

A generalized statement like the one mentioned above is especially encouraged if teachers want to nurture good learning habits among children. Early childhood learners, who after receiving love, praise and affection develop the feeling and the habit to raise their hand again when those teachers ask them a question. Moreover, at every educational level, even in different cultural contexts, praising positive actions fosters active learning styles and strategies. An interactive classroom facilitates discussions, feedback and other learning assessments: children, all the way to adult learners cultivate the feeling and habit to enjoy learning. A happy educational atmosphere creates trust, bonds among teachers, educational staff, even among other classmates. These relationships can last a lifetime.

On the other hand, ignoring negative actions is also a necessary educational pedagogy. Especially among young learners, those children that are able to learn right from wrong in an environment nurturing trust and warmth. So, a young boy that disturbs his classmates doesn’t need to be reprimanded, it can be ignored the first time. The teacher instead focuses on instruction, curricula and maintaining a healthy learning environment. Also, he or she could utilize negative reinforcements for facilitating better learning outcomes among other children; so, if Ben plays a prank on his friend Tom during a classroom problem-solving activity, Mr. Spiegel could discipline Ben by refusing him playground access during lunch break. Negative reinforcement during a higher-stakes situation discourages learners of different ages and backgrounds from repeating an undesirable activity. For example, Tim, an older student, he had experienced different teachers docking points or disciplining him as punishment. For these teachers, instructing TIm, who made repeated classroom transgressions, which had negatively impacted the congenial learning environment, was an alternative to simply ignoring his negative actions at all times.

Effective teaching also uses other proven psychological techniques for enhancing learning outcomes. Notably, students learn by observing one another, also their teachers - young children in different social cultural contexts first learn to raise their hand to respond to questions by observing their peers. They want to avoid embarrassment, so they observe their best friend getting a positive feedback which encourages a child, let's say John, to only raise his hand at the appropriate moment (the right turn to answer a question, after a teacher has probably asked a couple of children). Students also learn by doing, or paired associations; young learners slowly overcome their fear of presenting their ideas in front of teachers and classmates by conditioned response. A small girl, Alina, who from her early childhood years had developed a conditioned response to the autumnal leaves fluttering in the sunshine, as a matched pairing with the particular class time, location or even sequence of speaking in front those teachers and classmates.

It doesn’t seem that there is any single, all-encompassing, definitive way of teaching which enhances overall learning outcomes. Praising positive actions and ignoring negative ones potentially works among certain student audiences and contexts, perhaps other teaching methods are more effective or certain students have other learning needs. It seems that this credo is effective if not taken to extremes.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 136, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to right'
Suggestion: to right
...ly among young learners, children learn right from wrong in an environment nurturing ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, moreover, so, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3141.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 539.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.82745825603 5.05705443957 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07875313244 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 294.0 215.323595506 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 954.9 704.065955056 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.3951138121 60.3974514979 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.64 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.56 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.28 5.21951772744 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.142890915952 0.243740707755 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0427593352792 0.0831039109588 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0376684130339 0.0758088955206 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0930494448975 0.150359130593 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.032214178503 0.0667264976115 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.1392134831 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 48.8420337079 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.53 12.1639044944 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 160.0 100.480337079 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 11.8971910112 134% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.7820224719 144% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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