Some people believe that the most important qualities of an effective teacher are understanding and empathy. Others believe that it is more important for teachers to be rigorous and demanding in their expectations for students.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Teachers are the builders of a society. It is what they implant into the minds of the children that sprouts and bear fruits in the future. The presented views are contradictory to each other - some people believe that understanding and empathy should be the core values of a teacher while others believe that teachers should be conscientious in their expectations. I personally feel that effective teachers are those who understand and show empathy for the following reasons.
Firstly, the teachers can be stricture and thorough with the desire to bring out the best in their students. But, will it actually bring the best out of them? The answer is no. When the teacher is conscientious, the students would follow the mandate of the teacher diligently. They even perform just as the teacher wanted them to perform - nothing less, nothing more. But, is it actually their best performance? What if the students can do better than what the teacher expected? Being thorough and demanding creates a stressful environment that inhibits children to use their own imagination and come up with even better ideas. When the teacher is understanding, the children can strike a chord with the teacher and feel comfortable communicating their thoughts and ideas without any hesitation. The congenial environment goads the children to start contemplating and even come up with ideas that the teacher never anticipated. This helps children to develop the habit of critical thinking that will help them not only the classrooms but beyond the classrooms as well - like in personal life and professional career.
Moreover, we as humans, learn a lot of things in life subconsciously just by observing others. Be it walking, talking or even caring for others. These actions get ingrained in our minds implicitly even without our knowledge. Children spend quite a sizable amount of time with their teachers. Consequently, the teachers will have an influence on the way the children evolve and grow up as adults. It is the kind of values that the children absorb inadvertently that shape the vice and virtues of the future society. The rigorous and demanding nature of the teachers would have an adverse effect on the children. These characteristics of the teachers would instigate the same behaviour in the children as they grow. They would get stressed about situations if things are not going as they wish. They would lose patience and might take precarious decisions in haste. We wouldn't want a world where everything is viewed as unfavourable and hostile. When children observe the understanding and the empathetic nature of the teachers, they will turn out to be the same kind of persons when they grow up. They would view the world with positivity and hope instead of with despair and melancholy. Hence, the understanding and empathetic virtues of the teachers would have a positive effect on the society whereas the rigorous and demanding nature of the teachers would have a virulent effect.
However, in the realms of our discussion, we cannot overlook the benefit of being conscientious against children sometimes. As children, we take everything for granted and the same could be the case with an empathetic teacher. On being empathetic, children may not pay attention to what the teacher is trying to teach or the children may not perform as good as the teacher expects. In such scenarios, it would be fruitful to be rigorous and demanding as it will teach the students to be diligent and work hard towards achieving their goals.
Therefore, I feel that an effective teacher is one who understands and shows empathy towards children as it fosters critical thinking among the children and moulds them to be good human beings as they grow. But at the time, I would qualify my opinion as the amicable nature of the teacher can sometimes be taken for granted and the children may not develop self-discipline required to excel in life.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: wouldn't
... take precarious decisions in haste. We wouldnt want a world where everything is viewed...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, therefore, well, whereas, while, i feel, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 30.0 14.8657303371 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3289.0 2235.4752809 147% => OK
No of words: 649.0 442.535393258 147% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06779661017 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.04732388556 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83193923684 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 281.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.432973805855 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 972.9 704.065955056 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 6.24550561798 288% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 35.0 20.2370786517 173% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.5678449093 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.9714285714 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5428571429 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.94285714286 5.21951772744 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28630829761 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0765802994209 0.0831039109588 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0767472688224 0.0758088955206 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199615827549 0.150359130593 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.079443438922 0.0667264976115 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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