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 statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Communication is key in shaping human behaviour. The feedback we recieve from those around us determine how will we behave in the future. We have been hardwired to react to sticks and carrots since we were born. Infants learn appropriate behaviour by reading reactions around them. A smiling adult reinforces the baby’s behaviour whereas a reprimanding adult signals the baby that the behaviour was inappropriate. The statement claims that the best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative actions. I am in partial agreement with the statement. I agree that to teach we need to praise positive actions but I strongly disagree that we need to ignore negative ones.
Praising positive actions leads to positive reinforcement. It communicates to the group what model behaviour looks like and what is expected from them. Consider a classroom situation, one of the best and easiest classroom strategy is to praise the positive actions. When a teacher asks the students to close their books and take their seats, she/he praises the students who follow the instructions promptly. Hoping to gain the same positive reinforcement, all the other students follow.
The way positive actions outlines the model behaviour for the group, acknowledging negative ones outlines the non-negotiable behaviour. It makes it clear that negative actions have consequences in real life. Let us take an example of the classroom situation again. For instance, a teacher is teaching the class and there is one student who is misbehaving. If the teacher praises the positive actions of the class for keeping quiet or for reading their books, it is not going to serve the purpose. The students are not being communicated that there are consequences for breaking the rules. If we are to teach the students that every action has a consequence, we must reprimand the negative actions as well.
On the other hand, there are instances when one has to ignore the negative actions. This is normally done under the pretext of giving people second chances. Consider a workplace scenario, it is not necessary to highlight every negative action that takes place. It is beneficial when the negative actions are ignored. However, ignoring negative actions only work when there is an implicit understanding of the mistake. The best way to teach students is to find a balance between praising positive actions and reprimanding negative ones. If one is constantly praising the positive action or reprimanding the negative ones, the reinforcement will lose its value. Balance is key.
I believe it will do more harm that good if we only praise the positive actions and ignore the negative ones. Hence, there has to be a balance in teaching through sticks and carrots.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 228, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to appropriate'
Suggestion: to appropriate
...rots since we were born. Infants learn appropriate behaviour by reading reactions around t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, look, second, well, whereas, as to, for instance, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 58.6224719101 70% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2322.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 448.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18303571429 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84426418737 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 215.323595506 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.455357142857 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 728.1 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 23.0359550562 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.9242982495 60.3974514979 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 77.4 118.986275619 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.9333333333 23.4991977007 64% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.06666666667 5.21951772744 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281432418852 0.243740707755 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0842418985045 0.0831039109588 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0867514293573 0.0758088955206 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174285728123 0.150359130593 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0263560900364 0.0667264976115 39% => 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: 10.4 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 48.8420337079 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 12.1743820225 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.17 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 11.8971910112 46% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.2143820225 68% => 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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