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.
A teacher should pay attention to both psychological and scientific aspects in the class. In fact, the teacher needs to know the results of a reaction to students' behavior and action besides improving his scientific knowledge. In this regard, some people are inclined toward the opinion that praising a positive action better trains the students rather than punishing them for their wrong behavior. In my point of view, both good and bad behavior of the students should be considered. In the following paragraphs, I will elaborate on my perspective.
The best method for a teacher to achieve a perfect result in a classroom is to react occasionally. That is to say, the radical view of praising positive actions and ignoring negative ones will not work. Nonetheless, I agree only partially with the statement that encouragement is a viable idea because it leads the students to act with the utmost decorum. For example in a first grade classroom of an elementary school, students can be taught to raise their hands while asking and answering questions by the attention of the teacher to the students. When the children get positive feedback for their specific action, they are more likely to repeat it. It is the nature of the human that desires to be praised. Hence, encouragement of well-behaved children is a great method to reach the desired results in a classroom.
Additionally, ignorance of misbehaving children is another useful method to treat students but not in all situations. Take the previous example of first grade students for instance. Not paying attention to the students who want to interject without raising a hand leads them to a path of appropriate etiquette in the classroom. However, I do not accept the ignorance of the all unfavorable behavior since it can give courage to students to misbehave later as well. For instance, neglecting the hazardous usage of chemical materials in the lab by the students may cause serious problems. Therefore, deciding between attention to a wrong behavior or ignorance of it is an occasional reaction by the teacher that should be done based on the importance and seriousness of the action and its possible results.
The teacher should not ignore the rude and impolite student but that does not mean that the teacher needs to punish. Every behavior has a reason in the child that the teacher can seek and solve it. The psychologists can be helpful in acute situations. A student whispering others in the classroom is a sign of requesting more attention. When the teacher punishes that student, he will distract the others more because he knows he will get more consideration. A bullying student is mostly forced his family to follow him and believes everyone in the society should behave the same as his family. The teacher, at first, can talk to him and aware him of his wrong doing. If it does not help, then, he can look for another reason that caused the misbehaving. Punishment is the last choice in behavioral problems. However, fully ignoring some actions can convey the message to the student that the teacher agrees with the fault.
In conclusion, no one can deny the efficiency of praising a student's positive behavior in educating children. Nevertheless, any wrong action in the classroom may have different reasons and results that should be noticed and responded appropriately by the teacher, whether it needs to be ignored or punished.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, hence, however, if, look, may, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, then, therefore, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2855.0 2235.4752809 128% => OK
No of words: 569.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01757469244 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88402711743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8445018411 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467486818981 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 879.3 704.065955056 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.1574298183 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.1666666667 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9666666667 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.93333333333 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.107481403667 0.243740707755 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.033747233652 0.0831039109588 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0408616913129 0.0758088955206 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0746734031595 0.150359130593 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0319100650932 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: 11.7 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 100.480337079 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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