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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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.

The speaker asserts that the best method of teaching is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones. In my opinion, the statement raises valid points for asserting that the best way to teach is to praise positive actions, while it is too extreme to claim that the negative actions should be totally neglected. The neglect of the negative ones should be discussed case by case.

For starters, it is true that the best way of teaching is praising the positive behaviors. Proper praise can motivate the students and make them confident. For instance, if a student used to be taciturn all the time tries to answer the questions actively in class, the teacher should praise him and encourage him, no mater whether the content of his response is correct. As a result, the student is likely to become increasingly confident of his competence and braver to make a decision. On the contrast, if the students who always try to answer questions actively in class have not gain any praise, they may be discouraged and reluctant to give any responses to the teachers’ questions.

Besides, we shall admit that ignoring some negative behaviors is effective from time to time. It is ascertained that minor peccadilloes can, and in many cases should, be overlooked. Mistakes and other negative actions, such as being distracted by other things just for a while, are often parts of the natural learning process. Young children are naturally curious,and teachers or parents should not always scold their children for every broken plate or some minor mistakes out of curiosity. Otherwise, children are not capable of developing a healthy sense of wonder and curiosity, and may not know how to make decisions independently. Teachers should avoid rebuking and punishing students for faulty reasoning, incorrect responses to questions, and so forth. Otherwise, it may prevent the students from expressing their own opinions freely.

However, never can we take the statement to the extreme. Some bad behaviors other than the peccadilloes, should never be neglected, especially the ones regarding crimes. For instance, if the children are discovered that they have stolen money from their parents or classmates, they should be condemned or even punished heavily. Otherwise, they are tend to become habitual criminals if not told that these behaviors are illegal. Some severer negative actions like taking drugs or bullying, should be prescribed by the students’ parents or teachers once discovered. If not prohibited immediately, the students may be addicted to the drugs or violence. What’s worse, they may turn out to be heinous criminals. Hence, under these aforementioned scenarios, the negative behaviors can never be overlooked arbitrarily.

Overall, the statement is justifiable for the claim that the best way to teach is to praise positive actions, while as for the latter assertion regarding ignoring the negative behaviors, it should be evaluated circumstantially.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 584, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'gained'.
Suggestion: gained
...er questions actively in class have not gain any praise, they may be discouraged and...
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Line 9, column 364, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , and
...ss. Young children are naturally curious,and teachers or parents should not always s...
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Line 13, column 349, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'tended'.
Suggestion: tended
...n punished heavily. Otherwise, they are tend to become habitual criminals if not tol...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, hence, however, if, look, may, regarding, so, while, as for, for instance, such as, as a result, in many cases, in my opinion, it is true

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2524.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 473.0 442.535393258 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33615221987 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66353547975 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91499106671 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494714587738 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 785.7 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.8733813438 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.166666667 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7083333333 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.08333333333 5.21951772744 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.161437462131 0.243740707755 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0562697947196 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0800567681392 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126831323362 0.150359130593 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0814670635633 0.0667264976115 122% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.1639044944 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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