The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative onesWrite a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and sup

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The best way to teach 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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position

As the Western society developed over the last few decades, the classroom has become a safer place for children, teenagers, and young adults everywhere. No longer is it acceptable for a teacher to censure their classroom in an overly harsh tone, let alone physically reprimand students for misbehaving. This shift comes from the belief that students thrive - in the classroom and beyond - in "safe spaces" where they are allowed to express themselves freely without being upbraided for their behavior. However, while it is true that rewarding positive behavior generally incentivizes the students to continue their good behavior in the future, it is dangerous for school teachers and others in mentorship roles to ignore negative behavior.

While developing, children learn to tell right from wrong by how the adults around them react to their behavior, both positive and negative. These moments are instrumental in the development of the child and should be viewed as opportunities to teach correct behavior. If a kindergartener is playing with his toy while a classmate approaches to join him, this can be an excellent opportunity to learn the virtues of sharing. However, if the same child refuses to share his toy, and his actions are ignored by the teacher, there is no way for him to learn the joys of sharing. Without acknowledgement of negative behavior, the teacher never gives his student a chance to correct it. Of course, it may be the case that the teacher then goes on the praise another student for sharing, but this at best delays a critical lesson and at worst is ignored by the initial student. Even in adults, the benefits of critical feedback is valued because each individual is often ignorant of his or her own shortcomings. This can clearly be seen in professional sports, where the best atheletes of the era still seem to need a coach to break down their positive and negative actions after an important game, we are simply not as self-aware as we would like to believe.

The advances we've made in the classroom to protect children has undoubtedly had a positive influence on students by reducing estrangement and increasing inclusiveness in the classroom. Severe punishments for a child is no longer acceptable, and that is positive for any student's mental and physical development. Nonetheless, the statement for teachers to not acknowledge negative behaviors at all is uncalled for because children can learn valuable lessons by being told which of their behavior is aceeptable and which are not.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Consider using 'the surrounding adults'?
Suggestion: the surrounding adults
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: we've
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'nonetheless', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'while', 'of course', 'it is true']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.2096069869 0.240241500013 87% => OK
Verbs: 0.159388646288 0.157235817809 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0960698689956 0.0880659088768 109% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0524017467249 0.0497285424764 105% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0524017467249 0.0444667217837 118% => OK
Prepositions: 0.135371179039 0.12292977631 110% => OK
Participles: 0.0458515283843 0.0406280797675 113% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.91273632819 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0371179039301 0.030933414821 120% => OK
Particles: 0.00218340611354 0.0016655270985 131% => OK
Determiners: 0.109170305677 0.0997080785238 109% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0131004366812 0.0249443105267 53% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0109170305677 0.0148568991511 73% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2538.0 2732.02544248 93% => OK
No of words: 417.0 452.878318584 92% => OK
Chars per words: 6.08633093525 6.0361032391 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.58838876751 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.374100719424 0.366273622748 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.31654676259 0.280924506359 113% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.237410071942 0.200843997647 118% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.136690647482 0.132149295362 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91273632819 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 219.290929204 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541966426859 0.48968727796 111% => OK
Word variations: 62.3884811627 55.4138127331 113% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6194690265 73% => OK
Sentence length: 27.8 23.380412469 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.665653321 59.4972553346 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 169.2 141.124799967 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8 23.380412469 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.733333333333 0.674092028746 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.94800884956 61% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 59.454676259 51.4728631049 116% => OK
Elegance: 1.47933884298 1.64882698954 90% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.473080943172 0.391690518653 121% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.138925561178 0.123202303941 113% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.074730140206 0.077325440228 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.546783396473 0.547984918172 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0906713363893 0.149214159877 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.211360879387 0.161403998019 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0613312228289 0.0892212321368 69% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.433782733967 0.385218514788 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.00699848874105 0.0692045440612 10% => Paragraphs are so close to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.367152574419 0.275328986314 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0275945872038 0.0653680567796 42% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.4325221239 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88274336283 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.70907079646 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 13.0 13.5995575221 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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