Bowen Chen

Thank you for your example. I think I need to be more specific here right? The examples I gave are more like claims instead of support. This is very helpful !

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Hi all, Could you please help me grade and provide some feedback for my first attempt of an issue essay? Thanks a lot ! 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. -------------------------- Education is an integral component of a student’s successful career. Though each individual learns differently, there is always a question being raised about the best way of teaching. Over the years, many consider the most effective way for an individual to learn is to applause every positive steps he takes while place minimum emphasis on the negative ones. Even though it is natural to think that way, I cannot 100% champion this idea – I consider some positive actions needs to encouraged, but all negative ones needs to be handled with care rather than plainly ignored. Students always wants to achieve for more successes, but there are cases that they are achieving them by utilizing the wrong practices – and those actions cannot be left alone. To be more specific, a student who wants to get a high mark on his assignments may choose to plagiarize the model or sample assignments. While plagiarizing is a serious fault, the student might just not realize it, or doing this on purpose just to beautify his results. Nevertheless, ignoring his plagiarism would be absurd and irresponsible. Now since ignoring the negative actions can allow the negativity to persist, leading to even more severe faults in the future. Just because those negative actions were never stopped, the student can easily treat bullying another student as “acceptable” since they never were instructed to realize the consequences. Instead, for an educator, these negative behaviors need to be terminated since inception to preclude further damages. The educator should patiently talk to the student who committed the fault, make him realize the consequences and work closely in helping him correct those negative actions. I do believe majority, but not all, positive actions and results deserve a round-of-applause. Some spurs on the students will also result in a better performance in the future. As far as praises provide students more confidence and motivation to keep up the good work, constant embellishment will prevent students from realizing the room of improvements. For instance, a student who was able to crown over the school wide math competition can have his moment of fame, and being praised by his classmates, parents and teachers. However, overly endorse him, such as calling him “the best mathematician in the country” can just do more harm than good. Depending on the level of competition, simply winning the competition in school cannot imply his superiority over other candidates if they are to participate in a nation-wide math competition. Instead, I consider some tough love the best way to response to this student. The educator needs to focus assisting the student to revisit the competition and mark down the student’s strengths and weaknesses for future reference. The student should also work diligently on improving those areas. By doing so, the most effective teaching is achieved. The student’s potential is indeed maximized. In short, even though praising is necessary for a student to build confidence, constantly praising is not the best way of teaching. Instead, a combination of praise and spur, even warnings, should be applied depends on specific situations. By praising the actions that truly deserves a praise, offer tough loves to the ones that has further potential to realize, while warning those severe negative actions, the educators have conducted their due diligence and utilized the full effect of teaching