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 statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and support

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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 statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

A successful teacher is the one who makes one aware of both his/her strengths and weaknesses equally. According to my opinion, focusing just on the positive actions and ignoring the negative ones can actually prove detrimental to growth rather than promoting it. So, I am disinclined to agree with the view presented.

Humans have a proclivity of agreeing with opinions that generally match their own, that is, we seek constant validation. With this in mind, if a teacher focuses just on the positive actions of the student, that might lead to the student being delusional. The student may start to harbour a false sense of achievement and thus become complacent. This is in no way helpful to any individual to learn. It rather impedes learning. Just imagine, an athlete with a coach who just focuses on the strengths of his/her students. The weaknesses or the athlete’s deleterious habits will be constantly overlooked.

The ill effects of teaching by just focusing on the positve actions is not limited to teachers in educational institutes or coaches but begins at home. If parents overlook the negative ations of their children it may lead to their rogue, intransigent behaviour later in adulthood. Such consequences can be avoided by early intervention.

The interventions are pretty simple and based on the principles of honesty and trust- pillars of any relationship. The relation could be that of a student and teacher, friends, family. Constructive critism that addresses both the negative and positive actions of an individual is very important for learning. I would like to share an anecdote. I train in Indian Classical vocals. During my practice sessions- riyaaz we call in in India, my teacher told me that I sing my notes very flat but I sing with a lot of passion. But passion is no substitute for prescision. I practised really hard thereafter.
However, I believe that excessive criticism might break the morale of someone who is genuninely tanlented.

Thus, I think focusing just on the positive actions does not facilitate learning but an environment favouring constructive criticism definitely will aid in postive and incremental growth in an individual .

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, look, may, really, so, thus, i think

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1840.0 2235.4752809 82% => OK
No of words: 354.0 442.535393258 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19774011299 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02327938019 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 215.323595506 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.567796610169 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 573.3 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.5229581311 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.0 118.986275619 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.3913043478 23.4991977007 65% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.78260869565 5.21951772744 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.111589536278 0.243740707755 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0280656370703 0.0831039109588 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0361344124853 0.0758088955206 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0531165123844 0.150359130593 35% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0285558383268 0.0667264976115 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 48.8420337079 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.58 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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