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 su

The method of teaching in which the teacher praises positive actions and ignores negative ones can have both positive and negative consequences. Therefore, that might not be the best way to teach. People ought to learn from examples - good or bad. The good examples will let them understand better what is good while bad examples will as well teach them to understand what is bad and the implications of doing bad things.

Praise for positive actions will help the learners understand that several things can be gained when you act positively. For example, if a teacher gives his students home work to do and requests that they submit it first thing in the morning of the next day; by praising students who submitted their assignments as requested by the teacher, those students will feel gratified and would want to live by such examples at all times. What about the students who did not complete there home work? Should the teacher leave that unmentioned? By ignoring such acts, the lazy students would copy that as an example as well. In their mind, they will prefer not to submit their home works instead having a poor score in those home works. The teacher should not fail to let the students understand the consequences of not doing their home works.

Some reactions to negative actions can be detrimental. For example, consider a young lady, who gets pregnant while in secondary school and out of bitterness, the parents send her away. For another girl living with the parents the lesson learned could be to get rid of the pregnancy instead of letting the parents discover that she is pregnant, and could probably lose her life as a result of the abortion.

Finally, one should be mindful of the way he or she praises positive actions. Giving too much praise to a positive action by a lad could lead him to arrogance. He would always feel that he is the best and therefore, others should worship him. Alternatively, other students could take advantage of that by constantly bullying the student, who would now prefer to hide rather than carry out actions that would lead to others bullying him.