What is the best way to teach? Is it teaching while only praising positive action? Or does teaching also require constant rectification of the negative action? This is a question that is at the basics of the teacher’s teaching philosophy. The prompt suggests that the best way to teach is by praise positive actions and ignore negative ones. I don’t believe that the most efficient way to teach is by only praising positive actions, I also believe in the need for negatives actions which have their own set of benefits. In this essay I will explain my position using 3 points.
Encouraging students is an essential part of teaching. There is no sane argument with the view that adressing negative action has no place in education. For example, a student in class who is not doing very well academically might feel discouraged to work. He might feel that there is no use woring hard if he continuous to get low grades over and over again. This is a scenario where positive reinforcement can be helpful. At such a stage, it is necessary for the teachers to praise his hardwork so that the student still feels like he is getting recogition for his efforts, and that his efforts are not going to waste. Based on research, students who learn in an environment that praises their positve actions are much more optimistic and motivated in their studies.
However, it is not the case that only focusing on praising students will help them improve. In the very escence of learning is to fix your mistakes. So, if a student has some negative behavior that is detrimental to his growth, It is the teacher’s job to let the student know. For instance, In many scenarios there are many students who excel in most of their academic work. However, in certain aspects, like teamwork they lack- they might not be very friendly with their colleagues. In such a scenario it is essential that the student is informed about his shortcomings. Maybe, the student did not know about his unfriendly behavior. Letting him know gives him the opportunity to rectify his behavior. So this makes it essential to include revealing a persons negative behavior when teaching.
Not Ignoring negative actions is essential because every student has somes sort of shortcoming in their behavior that may be deterimental to their future career. For example, if a teacher only keeps praising her students’ positive actions it possible that the students become lethargic. They might start thinking they have no flaws to work on. This is quite opposite to what education is supposed to be. Learning and improving is not always fun because it comes at the cost of recognizing that no one is perfect. Teachers should supplement the students efforts by providing them with the necessary feedback for them to improve.
In conclusion, different teachers have different ways of teaching. It is not possible to give a one fit solution for all, different circumstances call for different strategies. However, I believe that teachers should include a variety in their teaching method such that they ensure that students remain motivated, while also learning about their shortcomings and working on becoming a better person. This is what makes including constructive critisism essential to learning.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, still, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, sort of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 14.8657303371 47% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.3162921348 203% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 68.0 33.0505617978 206% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2725.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 544.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00919117647 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82947280553 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75623935847 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.461397058824 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 837.0 704.065955056 119% => 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: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.3415758213 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.5757575758 118.986275619 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4848484848 23.4991977007 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.93939393939 5.21951772744 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300999692848 0.243740707755 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0886301144356 0.0831039109588 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.142945387739 0.0758088955206 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187011438713 0.150359130593 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.204331736444 0.0667264976115 306% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.8420337079 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.1743820225 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.48 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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