The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.

There is continuous research on the teaching methodology, while many recommend that we should praise positive actions, I cannot agree with the statement above that it is the best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones. I believe teaching should fallow different methods to achieve the best results.

Praising the right action is a successful way to make them repeat the action more frequently, especially in early ages. Teachers in classrooms tend to give their attention to students who rais their hand before they speak and ignore the students who don't. This will teach the students that they have to rais their hand before they speak. Also, parents and teachers of kids in pre-school or kindergarten age use this strategy to encourage the kids to learn good habits. For example, if the teacher praise the kids who clean up the toys when playing time is over, others will be encouraged to do so next time. But if kids continue refusing to clean up, then the teacher should adopt other criteria to teach them such as; taking away the toys which they left on the ground.

Also, ignoring the negative behavior is not always righteous. While some kids do something wrong seeking attention, others may have bad intentions, ignoring their bad-doing will make them think there are consequences of their actions. For instance, ignoring the action of the student who is bullying others give him a wrong message that his action has no consequences, and he will repeat his action in the future. Kids have to learn that every action, either it is good or bad, has consequences which they will have to deal with sooner or later.

Hence, teachers and parents should actively discuss with the kids why some actions are considered good and others are bad. This will provoke their awareness about the consequences of their actions and comprehend better perception of the good and bad idea. For example, if the parents talk to their kids about lying negative effects, and the importance of being honest, the kid's tendency of telling the truth will increase since they understand the privileges of being Honest. Also, this will assure that the kids understand why their actions are praised or not and ameliorate their control on their feelings when they are complimented or condemned as a result of their behaviors.

In conclusion, different teaching techniques may be used by teachers or parents according to different age and personality of the receiver. It is important to understand the values and principles in order to practice it with more convenience.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 251, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... they speak and ignore the students who dont. This will teach the students that they...
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Line 7, column 374, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'kids'' or 'kid's'?
Suggestion: kids'; kid's
...and the importance of being honest, the kids tendency of telling the truth will incr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, so, then, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as a result

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => 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: 2153.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 431.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99535962877 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5765533282 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 215.323595506 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.473317865429 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 644.4 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4271370982 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.611111111 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9444444444 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.88888888889 5.21951772744 113% => 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 : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273256066253 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0933864802699 0.0831039109588 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.132671621024 0.0758088955206 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184308431445 0.150359130593 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.187617552395 0.0667264976115 281% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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