The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
With the wide spread notion that punishing is not an encourage method of teaching, there is a claim that the best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones. While I generally agree with the claim that we should try to be more protective in teaching, I tend to argue that criticizing is also necessary when children perform some negative actions that cannot be tolerated.
To start with, it is commonly accepted that children will adjust their behaviors according to the consequences. When they find out that certain positive actions will generate praise and other kinds of rewards that can make they happy, they will be inclined to perform them more frequently. However, opnions differ when it concerns children's negative actions. In most cases, I agree that we should try to be more tolerate in order to protect the curiosity and self-esteem of children. More often than not, children do not break the rules deliberately. Instead, they simply do not realize that it is unproper to perform such actions and they will naturally find out what is permitted and what is not when they grow order. For example, should we blame a 4-year-old child for taking apart the expensive watch of his father The child's action is simply driven by his cuiosity and he is still in an age not understanding the concept of value. It would be unfair to blame the child for something he has done unpurposely and it would also be detrimental to his exploring spirits.
However, I have to point out that in certain circumstances, it is important that educators, whether parents or school teachers, make it clear to children that some negative actions are totally not acceptable. Let's imagine a case in which a child is bullying another child younger than he is. In such circumstance, parents or school teacher certainly should not simply ignore the situation and expect that the problem will somehow magically disappears by itself. What parents or teachers should do is to immdediately stop such behaviours and conduct a serious conversation with the bullying child.
Based on the discussion above, I believe that we can not hastily draw a conslusion about what to do with children's negative behaviours. The best answer we can give would be: teaching methods should be based on the characteristics of the children and also the environment. The guiding principle is not to be too harsh on the unpurposely mistakes while also using proper methods to teach children about ethics.
To draw a conclusion, I agree with the claim that when teaching we should prasie positive actions while ignoring negative ones in most cases with the prerequisite that the negative actions are not untolerable or even evil.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, still, while, for example, in most cases, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.3162921348 203% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2267.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 454.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99339207048 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73716237559 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464757709251 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 695.7 704.065955056 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.6762810817 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.944444444 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2222222222 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 5.21951772744 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.245009690627 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0792589243974 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.132399110419 0.0758088955206 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172748977642 0.150359130593 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126189514145 0.0667264976115 189% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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