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.
Teaching is a very nuanced part of animal, and specifically human behaviour. It is well known that there is not a “best” way, but only “better” ways, of helping another to learn an action. This assertion, that praising positive and ignoring negative actions is optimal, is therefore hard to base on any universal evidence. Though components of this hypothesis are certainly true, such as the importance of praising positive actions, there are some times where, punishing negative actions is just as important.
The importance of praising positive actions can be seen clearly in the example of potty training in children. To get a child to use the potty, a parent cannot reprimand their toddler for not urinating where they should, as this decreases the level of comfort and trust needed for potty-training. Conversely, praising one’s child provides an incentive to continue to use the potty, helping their child feel encouraged to persevere and continue trying to learn in an uncomfortable situation. It is this positive attitude, necessary for learning, that cannot be reinforced by punishment, and must be created by positive reinforcement.
Similarly, the importance of trust in a teacher-student relationship is evidence for the effectiveness of praising positive actions. For example, when training an animal, punishing bad behaviours often leads to the animal’s mistrust and anxiety, hampering their learning by causing unnecessary stress. Praising positive actions increases trust, by allowing the learner to see the teacher as somebody who cares for them. This trust, in turn, allows a learner to be less cautious of the teacher’s motives and personality, helping the animal to allow themselves to be shaped and molded by the teacher.
While praising positive actions has not inherently negative consequences, ignoring negative ones can. When teaching manners, it is not sufficient to simply praise positive actions, but also to extinguish negative actions. Ignoring negative actions can develop bad habits and decrease the learner’s propensity for growth. The leaner must surely be praised for, say, holding a fork in the left hand and a knife in the right, but if the opposite is not noted, then there is no incentive to change.
Additionally, while small bad habits may be ignored without major consequences and may even help the teacher to gain trust and a positive attitude from the learner, some actions are too perilous and dangerous to ignore. If they are ignored, the action may eventually be detrimental to the learner and potentially others, as in the case of teaching a friend not to drink and drive.
Overall, it can be deduced that while commending positive actions is beneficial and usually necessary for learning an action, ignoring negative actions is not as unequivocally effective. Ignoring negative actions, while sometimes lending positive results, can lead to bad habits and even dire consequences.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, if, may, similarly, so, then, therefore, well, while, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2526.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 463.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45572354212 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1138506915 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496760259179 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 800.1 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.9507575682 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.3 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.15 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.85 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => 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: 0.210015797383 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0826744093525 0.0831039109588 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0522525435336 0.0758088955206 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128550537349 0.150359130593 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.047742813385 0.0667264976115 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 100.480337079 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.