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.
Teaching is universally considered the most difficult profession because of the amount of responsibility and power teachers uphold. There are many teaching techniques in which some considered better than others and vice versa. There is a popular school of thought that believes that the best way to teach is through praising positive actions and ignoring negative ones. I somewhat agree with this, and will provide two reasons to support my beliefs. I will also be discussing a pitfall of this method.
Firstly, the idea that positive reinforcement works well to teach is not a controversial one. It is well supported by much research in the field of psychology, studies in teaching and sociological theses. In fact, positive reinforcement is also the number one way to train dogs and other animals. Usually positive actions or expected behavior is reinforced with the help of praise, pets and treats the animal likes. Humans are not much different. Each person desires hearing praise, and if something brings it to them, they are more likely to repeat that behaviour.
To add on, ignoring negative behaviours when they happen also happens to be a well supported teaching technique. This is supported by many early childhood studies and parenting books. It is believed that toddlers often throw tantrums because they want to demand attention, rather than something that is actually causing them pain or discomfort. It is recommended that parents ignore this negative behaviour, as it teaches the child that it will not bring them the attention they desire, hence nipping the behaviour in the bud. This technique is similary applied to older children and even adults in schools,universities,offices and more.
However, this method is not without its pitfalls. The most obvious one is that ignoring negative behaviours can sometimes even be dangerous and lead to untoward consequences. For example, if a student is bullying another student and a teacher ignore this sort of activity it might bring about real harm and trauma to the student being bullied. The line must be drawn on what is absolutely unacceptable negative behaviour and it must be checked immediately without letting it carry on for any period of time.
To conclude, saying that the best way of teaching is by praising positive behaviour and ignoring negative one is a complicated notion. In my opinion, it is a tried-and-tested method and can definitely be beneficial, with the benefits well documented in various fields of research. However, it can also lead to real harm if no checks are in place to protect everyone involved.
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actually, also, first, firstly, hence, however, if, so, well, for example, in fact, sort of, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => 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: 2188.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 422.0 442.535393258 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18483412322 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02753103389 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526066350711 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 680.4 704.065955056 97% => 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: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.7720301424 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.1304347826 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.347826087 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.60869565217 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203827698358 0.243740707755 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0594904465573 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0696752645811 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12078322621 0.150359130593 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0618346778797 0.0667264976115 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 100.480337079 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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