The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones. Write a response. 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.

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  • Flora_jia
    University: University of Southern California
    Nationality: China
    July 9, 2020 at 10:37 am

    The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones. Write a response. 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.

    I agree with the recommendation that positive doings deserve appreciation, but I do not believe that all wrong doings could be neglected. From my perspective, some can be ignored, while the more serious ones require attention from educators. Only with a flexible attitude toward wrong-doings can an educator teach kids well.

    To start with, an encouraging feedback for good acts will promote the students to keep performing well. Just as the operational conditioning performed by B.F. Skinner in the last century, animals, including people as proved in later researches, will be stimulated to keep the actions for which they received rewards. Similarly, when kids receive psychological rewards, in this case, the praise from people in authority, they will be spontaneously motivated to keep performing such actions. The more praise they receive for an action, the more likely they will continue to perform it. For instance, if a kid in praised publicly for being honest, such as bringing a lost wallet back to its owner, positive chemicals will be released in the kids’ brain, bringing this kid joyfulness as a reward. Then this kid will be more likely to continue being honest in the future. Thus, through taking the recommendation to response positively for good behaviors, children will be stimulated to perform well in the future.

    Just as positive reactions for positive performances, negative reactions are needed in most occasions for children’s wrong doings. In the operational conditioning experiment, when receiving punishment for an action, people will tend not to react this way again. Therefore, similarly, negative behaviors deserve attention to help the children realize that they should not perform in such way again. For example, if a kid makes loud noises in quiet libraries, disturbing other people, the kid should instantly receive warnings or tender information from his/her parents or teachers telling the kid to be quiet. Otherwise, with no realization about the negative effect of such action, the kid is likely to perform the same again in the future. In other situations, however, when children are not influencing others, such as not participating in classes, such behaviors could be ignored at the very moment in order not to waste other children’s time. Teachers may choose to talk with the children after class is over, and persuade the children to behave more actively in classes. In this way, children will realize that they could have performed better while not getting their self-esteem heart, which might happen if they are criticized publicly in class. Therefore, in cases of wrong-doings, whether adopting the suggestion needs to be considered under specific circumstances with different level of negativeness.

    In conclusion, oral encouragement is beneficial for kids as it can stimulate them to continue acting positively, while the negative performances need to be considered more thoroughly about the specific conditions so as to both help the children realize their wrong-doings but also take care of their feelings.

    Finally, educators also need to keep an eye on both the positive and the negative side of a behavior. For some actions which are made with nice intentions but end up causing a negative effect, educators should realize about both the well-intention and the poor results. For example, If a kid intends to help his/her parents but finally mess up due to his/her lack of abilities, the parents should praise for his good intentions but also informing the kid that one should assessing one’s own abilities before helping others. In this way, the kid will realize what cause the tragic results but also motivated to keep being obliging.

    July 10, 2020 at 8:43 pm

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