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.
Regarding the methodology to teach children, more than hundreds of opinions have been suggested, and it is still disputable to decide which one is the best. Some people insist that providing clear positive and negative feedback on children’s behaviors is the best way as it will help them clearly understand what is right and wrong. Some others say giving no feedback and letting them learn themselves is the best. However, I believe the most effective and efficient way to teach is to give feedback only on positive actions and ignore negative ones. This article will delineate the reasons why I support this teaching methodology.
Firstly, there are no children who do not like to be praised. We all are naturally born to mingle with others and always eager to be loved in society. A compliment is one of the ways that we can feel others are respecting and loving us; thus, we are more likely to take action to get more praise. If teachers praise their children when they do desirable actions, they will feel happy and be willing to continue actions that accompanied compliments. Therefore, I insist that praising children with desirable actions is beneficial.
Secondly, ignorance is enough to let children know their actions were undesirable. Some insist that children will not be able to detect whether they conducted bad behaviors if there is no feedback. However, it is not true. Human beings are naturally sensitive to the actions of others and being ignored hurts our feelings. When children are used to being praised for their desirable actions and do not get any feedback from some actions, they will pause their actions and think about reasons. When they realize the reasons for the absence of feedback, they will stop their undesirable behaviors. Thus, I believe ignoring bad behaviors is sufficient feedback to educate children.
Thirdly, negative feedback can be harmful to children. To be specific, negative feedback can result in undesirable emotional conditions. For example, when teachers or parents punish their children, they will be worried about being punished again so they may hesitate to do other actions. As a result, they might grow up relatively less confident in making decisions or taking action. In other cases, traumatic punishment may induce aggressive behaviors when they grow up. Thus, I support that ignoring negative actions is a better way of teaching, compared to giving negative feedback.
There are a number of ways to teach children, and related arguments will never end. Perhaps which teaching way is more effective or efficient may depend on the target individuals or societies. However, if I have to choose the best one to apply in general, I would like to suggest that it is praising desirable behaviors and ignoring undesirable ones.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, for example, in general, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.5258426966 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2331.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 457.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10065645514 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68264552407 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474835886214 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 726.3 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.8040729154 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.6538461538 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5769230769 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163347671929 0.243740707755 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0540890862319 0.0831039109588 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.04234260119 0.0758088955206 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111395397251 0.150359130593 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0456323516757 0.0667264976115 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.0 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
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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