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

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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.

A person's life is continuous journey of self improvement. Whether it is lessons related to our intellectual growth, efficiency of work or ethical code of conduct; we always have some guide, mentor or teacher to help us along the way. We sometimes find ourselves in the same role for other individuals. Although there is not perfect method of teaching but it definitively true that a good teacher pays equal attention to the negative as well as positive actions of the taught.

Parents use this method to make sure that the young and impressionable minds of their children do not pick up on some wrong habits like lying or bullying. While it is always a good idea to appreciate any positive action, like being honest it is similarly important to disincentivize wrong habits. This has a two pronged effect. Firstly, it helps the child know that what they have done is wrong. Secondly, it establishes that any negative action has commensurate consequences as well. Hence, it reinforces moral values along with providing a detterance to commit wrong in the future. We can extrapolate this to include not just children, but even adults. While growing up teachers provide a very important and much needed mirror to us. A good teacher must practice absolute disinterestedness. By glossing over or ignoring the negative actions of a pupil a teacher fails in his/her duty. After all, if you refuse to acknowledge the mistakes of your pupils then there is no way you can work on them.

An appreciation of positive actions coupled with acknowledgement, review and work on the negative actions is best encapsulated in the relationship shared by a coach and sportspersons. A good coach not only identifies the strengths of her student but also the weaknesses. It is necessary to work on the weak spots as well to truly gain an advantage and excel. Learning something new involves making mistakes and then learning from them. It is okay to make new mistakes. But if one is making the same mistakes repeatedly then it is the sign of a bad teacher. By not acknowledging any negatives of a pupil a teacher makes the grave error of creating a false reality in which the pupil sees herself as perfect.

It can be argued that by pointing out the negatives the teacher risks bringing down the self confidence of the pupil. To avoid this it is necessary to exercise sensitivity while working on the negatives. The parent should never reprimand or harshly criticise a child for lying or stealing. This can create a further problem by alienating the child. Similarly, a teacher should never shame a student for getting low grades. The negatives should be addressed in a constructive and emphatic manner. The whole point of focusing on the negatives is not to shame anybody, but to work together on how to make best work to remove the negative actions of any kind.

In conclusion, it is necessary for all teachers to not only praise the positives but work on the negatives as well. To attain this, the first step is acknowledging whatsoever the negatives are. It should be done in a positive and collaborative manner so that the pupils come out as better versions of themselves. After all, a good teacher is someone who helps us learn and gives us the tools and opportunity to make us better versions of ourselves.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 3, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
A persons life is continuous journey of self impr...
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Line 1, column 372, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'trues'?
Suggestion: trues
... method of teaching but it definitively true that a good teacher pays equal attentio...
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Line 7, column 598, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[4]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'make the best'.
Suggestion: make the best
...anybody, but to work together on how to make best work to remove the negative actions of ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, second, secondly, similarly, so, then, well, while, after all, in conclusion, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 49.0 33.0505617978 148% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2736.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 566.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83392226148 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87757670434 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89101871958 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492932862191 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 875.7 704.065955056 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.9878999146 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.9090909091 118.986275619 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1515151515 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.81818181818 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151364871322 0.243740707755 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0338403738879 0.0831039109588 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0439782806526 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0826257431579 0.150359130593 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0229844608997 0.0667264976115 34% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 14.1392134831 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.8420337079 128% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.1743820225 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 12.1639044944 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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