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 su

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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.

Debates on the best method of teaching have been going on for centuries. Some believe that praising positive actions and ignoring negative ones lead to the best results whereas some think that punishment for negative actions is the best teacher. This pedagogical debate can be resolved by the idea of balance between praise and punishment.
Praises help students be recognized for their achievement and excellence. Not only does is it a celebratory measure, praises can also encourage students to try even harder, their ego driving them to work for another praise. However, it should not be all that is provided to a student as it may prevent the student from further improvement or advancement. Teaching methods that solely focus on lauding the students only makes them blind to the room for improvement.

Such balance between praise and punishment for wrong actions was achieved by the famous teacher, Sullivan, who tutored Helen Keller. Keller was born deaf and blind and had a pretty violent character until she met Sullivan. Only after Sullivan praised her for the positive actions and repeatedly corrected the negative ones did she become docile. For example, if Helen would not hold the spoon correctly, the teacher would constantly bring it back to her hands and indicate to her that it was called a spoon. Another way that a good balance between praise and punishment leads to student success is the process of taking tests. If a student only focused on the questions he or she got correct, it would be difficult to learn anything new.

Some may think that there is no need to point out the negative actions, which may be the case if the student makes no mistakes or negative actions whatsoever. Even then, there is always room for improvement and a little bit of criticism can fuel the student to achieve even more than before. If everyone had ignored that slavery was not just, we may still have passages about why slavery should exist in our textbooks. Without proper criticism for negative action, we may still live in a world believing archaic ideas, with no advancement or improvement.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'thinks'.
Suggestion: thinks
...ult to learn anything new. Some may think that there is no need to point out the ...
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Line 6, column 214, Rule ID: LITTLE_BIT[1]
Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
...re is always room for improvement and a little bit of criticism can fuel the student to ac...
^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, still, then, whereas, for example

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 58.6224719101 58% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1756.0 2235.4752809 79% => OK
No of words: 354.0 442.535393258 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9604519774 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56006399741 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 215.323595506 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542372881356 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 544.5 704.065955056 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.3384146336 60.3974514979 47% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 103.294117647 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8235294118 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.58823529412 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.165562713678 0.243740707755 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0563961430683 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0534244028535 0.0758088955206 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108136600553 0.150359130593 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0522522962363 0.0667264976115 78% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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