The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
Regarding the methodology to teach children, more than hundreds of opinions have been suggested, and it is still disputable to decide which one is the best. Some people insist that providing clear positive and negative feedback on children’s behaviors is the best way as it will help them clearly understand what is right and wrong. Some others say giving no feedback and letting them learn themselves is the best. However, I believe the most effective and efficient way to teach is to give feedback only on positive actions and ignore negative ones. This article will delineate the reasons why I support this teaching methodology.
Firstly, there are no children who do not like to be praised. We all are naturally born to mingle with others and always eager to be loved in society. A compliment is one of the ways that we can feel others are respecting and loving us; thus, we are more likely to take action to get more praise. If teachers praise their children when they do desirable actions, they will feel happy and be willing to continue actions that accompanied compliments. Therefore, I insist that praising children with desirable actions is beneficial.
Secondly, ignorance is enough to let children know their actions were undesirable. Some insist that children will not be able to detect whether they conducted bad behaviors if there is no feedback. However, it is not true. Human beings are naturally sensitive to the actions of others and being ignored hurts our feelings. When children are used to being praised for their desirable actions and do not get any feedback from some actions, they will pause their actions and think about reasons. When they realize the reasons for the absence of feedback, they will stop their undesirable behaviors. Thus, I believe ignoring bad behaviors is sufficient feedback to educate children.
Thirdly, negative feedback can be harmful to children. To be specific, negative feedback can result in undesirable emotional conditions. For example, when teachers or parents punish their children, they will be worried about being punished again so they may hesitate to do other actions. As a result, they might grow up relatively less confident in making decisions or taking action. In other cases, traumatic punishment may induce aggressive behaviors when they grow up. Thus, I support that ignoring negative actions is a better way of teaching, compared to giving negative feedback.
There are a number of ways to teach children, and related arguments will never end. Perhaps which teaching way is more effective or efficient may depend on the target individuals or societies. However, if I have to choose the best one to apply in general, I would like to suggest that it is praising desirable behaviors and ignoring undesirable ones.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, for example, in general, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 15.1003584229 225% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 43.0788530466 102% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2333.0 1977.66487455 118% => OK
No of words: 457.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10503282276 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68264552407 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474835886214 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 726.3 618.680645161 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.8040729154 48.9658058833 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.7307692308 100.406767564 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5769230769 20.6045352989 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.45110844103 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 3.85842293907 337% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.31510461692 0.236089414692 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.092388996798 0.076458572812 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0885564419721 0.0737576698707 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201098380702 0.150856017488 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0939599057226 0.0645574589148 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 11.7677419355 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 86.8835125448 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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