Why Do Children Learn Through Encouragement And Praise Rather Than Punishment?
Children learn through encouragement and praise rather than punishment
Children are said to be the world’s most fascinating creatures, with the way they think, respond and behave. Children are known for their many talents and their way of understanding. A child may try to do many things on their own but will still seek advise form their parent, teacher etc, so the question lies, do children learn through encouragement and praise rather than punishment? Of course they do, of course we know that a child tend to react positively when he/she is congratulated or praise on a given task, and “yes’ of course we do know , that over praising a child can also lead to poor work effort and slow learning.
Encourage is the action of giving someone support, …show more content…
Building the self esteem for a child is a very rewarding experience and one way is through praise, “excellent, five gold stars , well done” are all words that comfort a child and to praise them through their stages of development is what they will take through life, always wishing the best for them is what they need as a good medicine that will help them develop cognitively, making them want to know, explore and discover all the elements of learning because of what mommy, daddy or teacher think of them. As teachers we ought to encourage children, so that they will be eager to learn. A teacher helps to mold the mind of others and as so we teachers need to express and praise children because they tend to work faster and harder, the way they think of what teacher think of me can slow the process of them putting their best foot …show more content…
Will he/she perform in and out of class? Yes they will, giving them a reward whether in words or candy motivate that child to work harder especially if others are being rewarded or encourage for their effort in their work, wouldn’t the other want the same so they will strive to worker harder, now imagine if we punish a child , what will happen? Let me tell you, he/she will eventually become isolated, he/she will become scared and will eventually lose interest in his/her work because, that child will think that I’m not doing my work right and I will probably never get it right, so they will stop participating in classroom activities thinking that if they answer incorrectly they might be punish thus leading them to stop asking or answering questions and will cause them to lose all focus, energy and passion into wanting to
Children are said to be the world’s most fascinating creatures, with the way they think, respond and behave. Children are known for their many talents and their way of understanding. A child may try to do many things on their own but will still seek advise form their parent, teacher etc, so the question lies, do children learn through encouragement and praise rather than punishment? Of course they do, of course we know that a child tend to react positively when he/she is congratulated or praise on a given task, and “yes’ of course we do know , that over praising a child can also lead to poor work effort and slow learning.
Encourage is the action of giving someone support, …show more content…
Building the self esteem for a child is a very rewarding experience and one way is through praise, “excellent, five gold stars , well done” are all words that comfort a child and to praise them through their stages of development is what they will take through life, always wishing the best for them is what they need as a good medicine that will help them develop cognitively, making them want to know, explore and discover all the elements of learning because of what mommy, daddy or teacher think of them. As teachers we ought to encourage children, so that they will be eager to learn. A teacher helps to mold the mind of others and as so we teachers need to express and praise children because they tend to work faster and harder, the way they think of what teacher think of me can slow the process of them putting their best foot …show more content…
Will he/she perform in and out of class? Yes they will, giving them a reward whether in words or candy motivate that child to work harder especially if others are being rewarded or encourage for their effort in their work, wouldn’t the other want the same so they will strive to worker harder, now imagine if we punish a child , what will happen? Let me tell you, he/she will eventually become isolated, he/she will become scared and will eventually lose interest in his/her work because, that child will think that I’m not doing my work right and I will probably never get it right, so they will stop participating in classroom activities thinking that if they answer incorrectly they might be punish thus leading them to stop asking or answering questions and will cause them to lose all focus, energy and passion into wanting to