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.
According to the statement provided in the prompt, the best way to teach is to praise positive actions while ignoring negative ones. I disagree with such statement: I believe that for teaching to be the most effective, positive actions should be praised, but negative actions should not simply be ignored, they should try to be corrected.
Learning entails acquiring a new skill or new knowledge, while teaching entails facilitating the acquisition of such skill and/or knowledge. In this manner, teaching is undeniably related to learning, given that when something is taught effectively the student also learns it effectively. When a child is learning how to walk or talk, or when he or she is learning healthy habits (e.g. brushing his or her teeth, washing his or her hands before dinner, etc.), receiving praise will make for the behavior to, more likely, be repeated. At the same time, it will also undoubtedly provide the child good self esteem and confidence. Nonetheless, receiving praise exclusively is not ideal. If, say, a child at some point decides that he does not want to brush his teeth anymore, it is imperative for this this negative behavior to be corrected in order for that child to grow up knowing and engaging in healthy behaviors.
Furthermore, when, for example, grade school students are learning arithmetic, or when high school students are learning algebra, they need to be told when they are doing things right, but they should also be told when they make a mistake. Most grade school and high school math classes give homework so students can practice, and students are also usually tested on the material exams. Doing well on homework and exams is commendable, and students’ good performance should undoubtedly be praised. This will provide students with satisfaction, motivation and encouragement. However, a negative performace and the mistakes students make should also be corrected. If the mistakes are simply ignored, how could those students learn from such mistakes? More likely than not, if such mistakes are not corrected, these students could go on to later mathematics classes with some faulty ideas or concepts, which in the long run would be detrimental to their overall education.
On the other hand, it can also be argued that criticism that is too harsh or that is not given in a positive manner can also be detrimental for the learning process. Going back to the previous example of the grade school and high school math classes: if the students that make mistakes on their homework and/or on their tests are scolded for those mistakes (instead of being tactfully told how they erred and how they can do better), the learning process for them will be extremely difficult as well as inadequate. Moreover, if they are only told about their mistakes and wrongdoings, and if praise is nonexistent, these students will most likely lack the confidence and motivation to want to do well and better their perfomance, which in turn will further preclude the learning proces.
In conclusion, the best teaching method is one that is based on praising good behavior and performance, as well as correcting negative behavior. As was discussed, when someone is learning, receiving praise for good work surely contributes to the learning process: it serves as positive reinforcement, such as that the good work that was done will most likely be repeated in the future. In other words, in virtually all cases, providing praise serves as an excellent motivator and provides for an effective learning enviornment. However, if there is negative actions or negative behavior, these should also be corrected in a tactful manner, which will in turn provide for the best and most effective and advantageous learning process.
- 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
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... that is too harsh or that is not given in a positive manner can also be detrimental for the learnin...
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Message: Consider replacing "in a tactful manner" with adverb for "tactful"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...ehavior, these should also be corrected in a tactful manner, which will in turn provide for the bes...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'e.g.', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'nonetheless', 'so', 'well', 'while', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'such as', 'as well as', 'in other words', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.200867052023 0.240241500013 84% => OK
Verbs: 0.184971098266 0.157235817809 118% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0910404624277 0.0880659088768 103% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0736994219653 0.0497285424764 148% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0419075144509 0.0444667217837 94% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0924855491329 0.12292977631 75% => OK
Participles: 0.0751445086705 0.0406280797675 185% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.76202973356 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0260115606936 0.030933414821 84% => OK
Particles: 0.0014450867052 0.0016655270985 87% => OK
Determiners: 0.0708092485549 0.0997080785238 71% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0317919075145 0.0249443105267 127% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0274566473988 0.0148568991511 185% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3760.0 2732.02544248 138% => OK
No of words: 615.0 452.878318584 136% => OK
Chars per words: 6.11382113821 6.0361032391 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97987886753 4.58838876751 109% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.373983739837 0.366273622748 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.29756097561 0.280924506359 106% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.239024390244 0.200843997647 119% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.120325203252 0.132149295362 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76202973356 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 219.290929204 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.429268292683 0.48968727796 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 51.9072367752 55.4138127331 94% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6194690265 112% => OK
Sentence length: 26.7391304348 23.380412469 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.5092735458 59.4972553346 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 163.47826087 141.124799967 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7391304348 23.380412469 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.739130434783 0.674092028746 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 56.4952279958 51.4728631049 110% => OK
Elegance: 1.22596153846 1.64882698954 74% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.40262032218 0.391690518653 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.150413067467 0.123202303941 122% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0902151847291 0.077325440228 117% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.510854031099 0.547984918172 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.149117859484 0.149214159877 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159327167274 0.161403998019 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.091826123937 0.0892212321368 103% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.363599812246 0.385218514788 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.113019864935 0.0692045440612 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.291604052878 0.275328986314 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0571720644244 0.0653680567796 87% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.30420353982 132% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 3.66592920354 164% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 13.5995575221 154% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.