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 s

The statement provided claim that praising the positive actions and ignoring the negative ones is the best way to teach. This argument seems correct, and I agree with it to a great extent but not completely.

Praising positive actions encourage the students to keep up with these good actions and try enhance them. In math class, for example, if a student is shy and rarely ask questions, if the teacher praise the students who involve in some conversations and avoiding being passive in the class, the shy student will feel encouraged to ask questions and get involve with the rest of the class. Imagine if the teacher for example does not praise the students who ask question, most likely most of the student will not feel to participate and stop the teacher if they do not understand a certain point of his explanation. Thus, praising good actions will encourage the students to maintain these good actions.

The same thing could be applied for other classes were students need to build confidence in themselves. Taking for example a public speaking class. The teacher or the mentor should not only praise good actions, but he also need to ignore most negative ones to keep the confidence of the speaker high. The teacher might give some critical feedback, but he should ignore all minor negative mistakes that the speaker such as the using of filler words or sounds, the eye contact, and the word choosing, especially if the student is still novice in public speaking class. Fixing all negatives of a speaker will keep him/her worry of making mistakes and will turn his/her attention to focus in avoiding the mistakes rather than focusing in delivering excellent speech. Therefore, it is very important that teachers, especially for the topics that need confidence from the student, do not point out all negatives.

On the other hand, although praising good actions and ignoring the negative ones is very healthy as we mentioned in the above examples, but the student still need to know his/her mistakes or weak points. If the students is not being informed by their weak points and their mistakes, they will not correct them. For example, in physics class, if the student always just use the kinematic equations without fully understand their physical representations in the real world, he/she will face many difficulties when he/she is giving complicated problems because complex problems need making some modifications for the original equations. Therefore, if the student never been advised to analyze and understand the physical representation of the equation, he/she will just encounter real issues with the advanced material of the subject. Thus, there actually times where ignoring negative actions is not helpful and not a good way to teach.

Ultimately, it is always helpful to praise good actions; however, there are sometime good results from ignoring negative actions and critical consequences from ignoring them in other cases.