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.
Teaching is considered to be the noblest profession. It requires an apt understanding of the subject being taught, student psychology and behaviour. On the other hand, teaching is not restricted to classrooms. A mother giving early lessons to her child on his/her character is also teaching. It has been claimed that the best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones. I fully disagree with this statement.
If a teacher, be it in a classroom or at any other occasion, goes on to ignore a child committing a mistake, he/she will never realise that it is a mistake until it is too late to correct, leading to heavy repercussions. For example, a child mispronouncing a word such as ‘knowledge’ without knowing that ‘k’ has to be silent will continue the mistake until he/she is probably shamed before an audience. In another case, a mother might ignore that her child is aggressive and violent towards peers. The child might grow up to become a violent adult as well. A driving instructor might ignore a student forgetting to carry his/her license, which could continue until the student is fined by the police.
Continuous praising will also increase pride in a student, considering himself/herself to be a master in the field, while actually being the opposite. Increased pride will grow into over-confidence and when an eventual failure occurs, inability to face trauma. A common situation is when a child makes a lot of spelling mistakes while writing which the teacher ignores because even though the student spells wrong, knows the concepts well for which the child is praised. The child will never focus on improving her spelling skills. When the child takes a public examination scored elsewhere, he/she might perform badly due to bad writing even though the concepts were correct. He/she will find it difficult to accept that a mistake was made and will lose confidence.
Teaching which ignores negative actions and praising positive ones alone makes a student habitual to only praise. When someone actually does point out, the student might react angrily due to lack of familiarity with constructive criticism. The student might also be very pompous, due to which teamwork could be difficult.
It is necessary that a teacher praises as well as reprimands a student for positive and negative actions respectively. Only then, will all-round development of the child take place.
- 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 andexplain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and sup 58
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, if, so, then, well, while, as to, for example, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2043.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 397.0 442.535393258 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14609571788 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93039462516 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521410579345 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 628.2 704.065955056 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.3922629507 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.8636363636 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0454545455 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.59090909091 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.15764149773 0.243740707755 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0579381130484 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0848304288833 0.0758088955206 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117903355855 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0586650216343 0.0667264976115 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.29 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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