The best way to teach—whether as an educator, employer, or parent—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 claim.
In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Perhaps one of the most challenging tasks a human being can have, it the task of teaching or instructing another human being. This task is challenging for more than one reason. In addition to requiring mastering what is being instructed and a committed belief in what is being taught, teaching also involves dealing with the psychological nuances of an inherently diverse set of students; each with her own preferences, interpretations, and independent train of thought and each motivated by a unique understanding of the world. It therefore becomes difficult to advise on how one should go about this complex task of teaching and even more difficult to generalize and encourage a teacher to teach all students in a similar manner, without first trying to explore those individual experiences and preferences. Some think that to remain on the safe side, one should look to stick to praising positive actions and ignoring negative ones. After all, that serves to nurture their strengths and de-emphasize their weaknesses thus boosting an individual’s ego and self-esteem. Yet, it is easy to see wholes in this general strategy.
While it is true that highlighting and praising an individual’s positive attributes may increase the excitement of some individuals about them and encourage them to develop those strengths, this may not always be the case. Praising the math skills of a rebellious student, for instance, may sometimes increase their arrogance about them. It may mean that they would simply stop studying math and try to find ways to outsmart their exams. The praise may thus put them on a mission to prove the exceptional extent of their abilities in comparison to others. In doing so, they may easily start to fall behind. The disappointment associated with this failure may lead them to even more rebellion. Claiming the system is not for them. In the end, despite having praiseworthy abilities, the ego resulting from all the praise can blind the individual into failure. Of course, not all students would react this way. But some would, and it’s important to adjust one’s approach to those different scenarios.
Similarly, while it is true that ignoring ones negative attributes instead of highlighting them, may do well for their self-esteem, not every student needs that boost in self-esteem. Some may be only child’s who have grown with the complete attention of two spoiling parents. Those students, like that rebellious math student, do not need a boost in ego. In fact, a critical eye at their less positive traits may do them some good. Highlighting the possible results of the inflated ego of our math student would likely do him some good.
This brings us to the final point, this strategy assumes that it is healthy and beneficial for a student to develop one strong trait and neglect others. While it is true that a math professor relies heavily on his math skills to achieve success in his professional life, he will do himself no good if he got died at the outset of his career from obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. He will constantly fall short if he never developed the discipline necessary to excel in life and his career. Going back to our math student, even if his reaction to praise was positive, the fact that he was never told he needs to work on his ego, or social skills, will take him nowhere in life.
Overall, it is important to note that people are different and that they are very likely to react differently to different approaches. An ideal instructor would always put that in mind, personalizing his approach to every individual he wishes to instruct and guide through life. Praise may work with some, but it may backfire severely with others.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...courage a teacher to teach all students in a similar manner, without first trying to explore those ...
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Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...eds that boost in self-esteem. Some may be only child's who have grown with t...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'similarly', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'after all', 'for instance', 'in addition', 'in fact', 'of course', 'it is true']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.179487179487 0.240241500013 75% => OK
Verbs: 0.163817663818 0.157235817809 104% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0868945868946 0.0880659088768 99% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0541310541311 0.0497285424764 109% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0726495726496 0.0444667217837 163% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.111111111111 0.12292977631 90% => OK
Participles: 0.0512820512821 0.0406280797675 126% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.85187958426 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0441595441595 0.030933414821 143% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0954415954416 0.0997080785238 96% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.034188034188 0.0249443105267 137% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00712250712251 0.0148568991511 48% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3733.0 2732.02544248 137% => OK
No of words: 621.0 452.878318584 137% => OK
Chars per words: 6.01127214171 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.991980728 4.58838876751 109% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.334943639291 0.366273622748 91% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.272141706924 0.280924506359 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.199677938808 0.200843997647 99% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.133655394525 0.132149295362 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85187958426 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Unique words: 309.0 219.290929204 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497584541063 0.48968727796 102% => OK
Word variations: 62.4192276887 55.4138127331 113% => OK
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6194690265 141% => OK
Sentence length: 21.4137931034 23.380412469 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.9714484301 59.4972553346 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.724137931 141.124799967 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4137931034 23.380412469 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.620689655172 0.674092028746 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 48.6279637959 51.4728631049 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.17647058824 1.64882698954 71% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.366461893484 0.391690518653 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.108685386326 0.123202303941 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0899293792121 0.077325440228 116% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.466477267504 0.547984918172 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.144870104367 0.149214159877 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126969934498 0.161403998019 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0673967362173 0.0892212321368 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.329278495887 0.385218514788 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0950596835627 0.0692045440612 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.235907951498 0.275328986314 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0780314172433 0.0653680567796 119% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.4325221239 192% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 17.0 7.22455752212 235% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 24.0 13.5995575221 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 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.