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.
A teacher is someone who gives you a sense of right or wrong; It may be your school teacher in the most putative sense, it may be your parents or friends or for that matter any one whom you learn something from- may not even be a person altogether!
Just as there is no white without black and no light without darkness, a person will not be aware of his positive actions if he is unaware of his faults or negative actions per se.
Therefore, I strongly believe that the best way to teach is to give equal - if not more – importance to keeping negative actions in check.
We are well aware that teaching and parenting are considered to be two of the most daunting professions/positions, and this is not unreasonable. The reason is that a teacher is bound by the responsibility of keeping a very sensitive balance between the “carrot” and “stick”- praise a student too much and they may get spoilt, ignore their faults too much and they run the risk of becoming under-confident or defiant.
Let us consider a few very common occurrences.
As parents of a child, one of the numerous roles that ought to be played is the role of a teacher, right from birth. From teaching how to walk to inculcating good values in the kid, for that child to emerge as a good human being. But, if the parents merely praise the child and ignore the child’s mistakes, will that be in the benefit of the child in the long run? Sure, the child will be very happy that it has such “cool” parents – who never say “anything”, but this will do more bad than good. The child will have no sense of what is wrong and is sure to make bigger mistakes and end up in jeopardy.
Similarly, in school, a good teacher is not the one who simply praises you, but also makes sure to tell you what is wrong, whenever you are at fault.
It is always better to nip a problem in the bud rather than ignoring it and letting it grow into a weed that will sadly only prove counterproductive later.
A mind that is attuned only to positive feedback is sure to fall prey to criticism when it is least expected.
For example, a child who has always been praised at home and never been corrected
Surely, the criticism must be meted out very constructively- in a manner that encourages the child to not repeat such actions in the future, but ignoring is definitely not the solution. It can be safely said in this case that ignorance is NOT bliss. One must be aware of one’s faults, in order to emerge better the one own self, let alone others.
It is therefore of paramount importance that praising an individual for his good actions is only one side of the coin. Making the person aware of his fallacies is the perfect complement and makes teaching wholesome in the true sense.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: anyone
...r parents or friends or for that matter any one whom you learn something from- may not ...
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...faults too much and they run the risk of becoming under-confident or defiant. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, similarly, so, therefore, well, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.5258426966 195% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => 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: 2306.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 504.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.5753968254 5.05705443957 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88667369325 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486111111111 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 719.1 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 89.4663189263 60.3974514979 148% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.111111111 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0 23.4991977007 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.21951772744 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 12.0 4.97078651685 241% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => 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: 0.153504206757 0.243740707755 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0464636020039 0.0831039109588 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0511434556568 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0649827350971 0.150359130593 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0500524274666 0.0667264976115 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.98 48.8420337079 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.8 12.1743820225 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.58 12.1639044944 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 100.480337079 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 26.0 11.8971910112 219% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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