“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.
What is the best way to teach? While some expert believe teaching happens by rewarding desirable actions and punishing undesirable ones, many others state that the best way to teach is by rewarding positive actions and ignore the negative ones. The prompt author is among the second group and I personally, assert that albeit not completely feasible, it is generaly a good approach because of following reasons:
To begin, behavioral psychologists have long discussed that rewarding is the key to teaching In fact, brain studies show that when an action is rewarded, dopamine, a key hormon in menthal wellbeing, is released in the brain and that percipitate the recurrence of that behavior. This phenomenon is seen in children, adults and even animals. When a student performs well in a test, they get a good mark, they get praised by their teacher and ultimately they feel proud. This student is likely to study for the next test to experience this feeling again. So, rewarding is advantageous to teach students their lessons.
Next, rewarding creates an atmosphere of positive feelings and motivations while punishment leads to negative feelings and ultimately a hatred for the education system. For example, if a student is reprimanded in front of his friends because of his bad score, he will experience shame and hatred towards his teacher or even those other students who got better marks. Such feelings often result in avoidance and so, in the long run, not only the student is not going to be motivated to ameliorate his score, but also he might drop out of school altogether. It can be said that unlike punishment which will only destroy the positive atmosphere of learning, rewarding is advantageous to create an atmosphere of motivation and acceptance.
Last, it should not be neglected that in some cases, punishment is needed to discipline children and people. For instance, if a child steals something from another child. His actions hsould not be ignored. Instead, he should be told that this behavior is unacceptable and he will get punished if he does more. The idea of relying only on rewarding might not be helpful in this scenario.
In short, this subject is a complex one and should be considered in various situations but it can be said that rewarding is advantageous to help people learn and to create a positive atmosphere for them. However, punishment might also be necessary in order to teach people about social rules and disciplines.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, second, so, well, while, for example, for instance, in fact, in short, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 58.6224719101 73% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2063.0 2235.4752809 92% => OK
No of words: 410.0 442.535393258 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03170731707 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77707963994 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509756097561 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 637.2 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 95.844926835 60.3974514979 159% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.611111111 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7777777778 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.21951772744 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => 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: 0.11452561261 0.243740707755 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0409865725855 0.0831039109588 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0526920123201 0.0758088955206 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0706834036773 0.150359130593 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0564096789543 0.0667264976115 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 11.8971910112 160% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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