The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
When teaching, there will be students who behave well in class and others who do not. The recommendation states that those who exhibit positive behaviors should be praised and those who do not behave favorably should be ignored. I agree with the recommendation, however there should be some action taken for those who act negatively.
By praising positive behaviors, it positively reinforces the act and therefore will lead to acts that fall in the same line. This can be exemplified by Skinner’s experiment. When the mouse pushed the correct button, it was rewarded with food which bolstered the favored behavior. This lead to the mouse choosing the correct button more frequently so that they can get food. In the same way, in the classroom, the teacher can praise the student who took initiative to clean the whiteboard. This will not only encourage the student to continue this favorable action, but will illustrate to their peers of what motions are favorable. In doing so, it will result in a decline of unfavorable behavior and increase in positive ones.
In teaching, ignoring negative actions does not help educate the students on proper behavior. If a student decided to speak out in class while the teacher was talking and was ignored, it instead would cause the student to continue interrupting until they were given attention. The act of ignoring would amplify the negative behavior. Instead, the teacher should tell the student that they should raise their hand if they have a question and not interrupt the flow of the class. In doing so, it lets the student know of the negative behavior and how the student can correct it. As a result, it will lead to a decline in the negative behavior, which will be beneficial to the learning environment.
However, by correcting negative behavior it can affect the student’s esteem. If a student is singled out in their behavior, they may feel embarrassed in front go their classmates. This can cause a decline in the student’s self-esteem and may lead to bullying. Although this is unfortunate, the teacher can chose to privately correct the student so that they do not feel attacked in a public setting. This negative reinforcement will help decrease bad behavior while also keeping the student’s image amongst classmates.
In summation, I agree in part with the recommendation. Praising positive behavior will positively reinforce it and encourage others who are exhibiting negative behavior to modify their actions. Instead of ignoring negative behaviors however, teacher should correct the students by educating them of the correct behavior, which will decrease the number of negative acts. This modified recommendation will lead to a nurturing teaching environment.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'act'.
Suggestion: act
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, therefore, well, while, as a result, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 28.0 12.4196629213 225% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2302.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 444.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18468468468 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84913025657 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 215.323595506 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.436936936937 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 707.4 704.065955056 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.9732600732 60.3974514979 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 92.08 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.76 23.4991977007 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.4 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157449393389 0.243740707755 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0550640551881 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601903151522 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100591775588 0.150359130593 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0544266892679 0.0667264976115 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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