The best way to teach—whether as an educator, employer, or parent—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 claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
How to educate has been a topic long discussed and argued about. Some people claim it is best to teach by praising the positive actions and ignoring the negative ones, however, the criticism and even moderate punishment are actually an important and integral part of education. People may not realize the detrimental effects and serious consequences of their actions if they goes unpunished repeatedly. Admittedly, however, there may be harmful effects to implementing punishments.
Criticizing negative behaviors are sometimes necessary for impressing on others the negative effects their actions have, and importance of changing them. For example, if a teenager misses his or her curfew multiple times, and each times his or her parents say nothing about it, the teenager probably won’t realize the detrimental effects of the action. Instead of realizing that the curfew is implemented for their own safety, the teenager may think of it as triviality, and that missing it will cause not harm. Criticism, far from impeding the learning process, can help demonstrate the harmful effects of the action and importance of the issue. By ignoring the negative action, the missing of curfew in the example, the parents failed to impress on their kid the importance of the issue at hand. Though ignoring the problem may seem attractive, it is actually counterproductive.
In addition, criticism and reasonable amount of punishment can lead people to realize the serious consequences of their actions. When educators simply ignore the harmful behaviors, the potential consequence of such behavior is omitted, and the one to be educated may not realize that their actions have consequences. Say for example, when a teacher found one of her students cheating on his or her homework, and instead of talking to the student and handing out appropriate punishment, the teacher simply let that slip. By doing so, the teacher is telling the student that cheating have on consequences. Therefore, the student may go on cheating, committing plagiarism, and even felonies in the future. It is important in education to impress on people that their actions can have serious consequences by pointing out and even punishing negative behaviors.
Despite all the positive effects criticizing and punishing negative behaviors can have, there are certain side-effects, such as the fear such treatment can cause in young kids, which in turn will impedes learning. However, such negative emotions results mostly from excessive criticism and punishments, and can be minimized by applying criticism and punishment appropriately together with praise and rewards.
In conclusion, criticizing and appropriately punishing negative behavior is a superior method of educating than simply ignoring them. Doing so will impress on the students the detrimental effects and possible consequences of their action. Though admittedly there are negative effects to criticism and punishment, those effects can be minimized.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 376, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'go'
Suggestion: go
...s consequences of their actions if they goes unpunished repeatedly. Admittedly, howe...
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Line 7, column 197, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'impede'
Suggestion: impede
...cause in young kids, which in turn will impedes learning. However, such negative emotio...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'therefore', 'for example', 'in addition', 'in conclusion', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.218568665377 0.240241500013 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.16247582205 0.157235817809 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0831721470019 0.0880659088768 94% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0599613152805 0.0497285424764 121% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0464216634429 0.0444667217837 104% => OK
Prepositions: 0.114119922631 0.12292977631 93% => OK
Participles: 0.0657640232108 0.0406280797675 162% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.99736730733 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0174081237911 0.030933414821 56% => OK
Particles: 0.00386847195358 0.0016655270985 232% => OK
Determiners: 0.0851063829787 0.0997080785238 85% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0309477756286 0.0249443105267 124% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00773694390716 0.0148568991511 52% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2994.0 2732.02544248 110% => OK
No of words: 460.0 452.878318584 102% => OK
Chars per words: 6.50869565217 6.0361032391 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6311565067 4.58838876751 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.45 0.366273622748 123% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.395652173913 0.280924506359 141% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.278260869565 0.200843997647 139% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.165217391304 0.132149295362 125% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99736730733 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 219.290929204 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45 0.48968727796 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 50.0808174354 55.4138127331 90% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6194690265 102% => OK
Sentence length: 21.9047619048 23.380412469 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.3940531024 59.4972553346 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.571428571 141.124799967 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9047619048 23.380412469 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.47619047619 0.674092028746 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 61.4699792961 51.4728631049 119% => OK
Elegance: 1.48201438849 1.64882698954 90% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.373807514788 0.391690518653 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.148009742322 0.123202303941 120% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0955366340129 0.077325440228 124% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.560028934131 0.547984918172 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.119934964038 0.149214159877 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152679354081 0.161403998019 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0634834526539 0.0892212321368 71% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.407919118793 0.385218514788 106% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0949667238843 0.0692045440612 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254855277985 0.275328986314 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0444789514275 0.0653680567796 68% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.4325221239 38% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 17.0 5.30420353982 321% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88274336283 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 4.0 7.22455752212 55% => OK
Negative topic words: 15.0 3.66592920354 409% => Less negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.70907079646 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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