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.
The human mind is convoluted. There are a lot of research studies that show that every human is different which means everybody reacts differently to praise or criticism. Thus, it becomes very difficult for parents, teachers, or even employers to teach or give reviews. The prompt advocates that the best way to teach is to always praise the positive actions and ignore the negatives ones. I disagree with the statement and believe that actions cannot be generalized for every person for these three main ideas.
Firstly, people can take criticism positively and use feedback to improve themselves. In other words, if you keep praising a guy, he or she will never learn his or her mistakes. Consider a hypothetical scenario - a student who is very good at Maths but terrible in English. Now if his teacher keeps neglecting his mistakes in English and then that student appears for GRE, he may score very good in maths but will definitely fail in English and will be unable to complete his masters from a reputed university. Hence, if his teacher has pointed out his mistakes before, he could have learned about his weaknesses and worked towards it. Hence, it is never good to ignore your weaknesses because, at some point in your life, it will affect you.
Secondly, excessive praise can develop overconfidence. Consider a hypothetical scenario i - a student who is excellent in academics in all subjects. He always gets big praise from his teachers or parents for great marks and he starts thinking of himself as some bigshot. But at some point in his life, he will move out of school and compete in an open environment. There will be more people like him who is just as smart as him and he will not find himself in a lionizing state now. This may break him hard and he may even lose all his self-confidence. Hence, it is never good to be praised excessively and be overconfident about yourself.
But someone can argue that the praises can motivate a guy and he or she will always have something to look forward to. To them, I will say it is really complex to decide what will work out or not. It is possible that a slight insult can break a person and scar him for life. But if you are setting techniques for teaching methodology, I think it is never good to stick to one method.
In conclusion, teaching is a very complex job and requires a lot of effort and experience. The decision should be personalized but sticking to one methodology either praise or insult is never a good idea. A student should be praised for his or her achievements and should be punished or at least should be highlighted for his mistakes.
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, look, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, thus, at least, i think, in conclusion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 33.0 14.8657303371 222% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 60.0 33.0505617978 182% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 58.6224719101 75% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2168.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 463.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.68250539957 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69971714366 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494600431965 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 681.3 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.4845172642 60.3974514979 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.72 118.986275619 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.52 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.32 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.131977101844 0.243740707755 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0428333592729 0.0831039109588 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0568571180106 0.0758088955206 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0803028646059 0.150359130593 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0579372667727 0.0667264976115 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 14.1392134831 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.86 12.1639044944 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 100.480337079 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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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