A city wants to help teachers of its high school students (age14-18) improve their teaching. It is considering two plans:
1. Choose a small group of excellent teachers; these teachers will attend a class led by an expert for additional training in how to teach effectively, and they will then come back to their schools and provide that training for other teachers in school.
2. Provide additional training in teaching effectively for high school teachers, using online material that each teacher will study individually.
It is not a simple task to help high school teachers to improve their teaching. Although it is possible to offer online material about ways to teach effectively for teachers to study individually, I would prefer another plan. I am more inclined to pick a small group of teachers to attend a class led by an expert and then send them back to school to teach other teachers. This is due to the completeness and higher efficiency in enhancing teaching skills.
To begin with, teachers are unable to acquire some important teaching strategies solely from online materials. Many things are harder than they look. For example, if teachers attend a class led by an expert, they will feel more engaged in how to teach. Moreover, if teachers have questions on materials, they may receive more explanation from experts. Because this small group of teachers is excellent in school, they are able to find out potential problems that are not mentioned in the expert's materials. By doing so, when they go back to school and teach other teachers, they will be more inclusive on the ways to teach.
Additionally, the first plan in the question is much more efficient than online materials. Although there are advantages like time flexibility in using online materials, it is practically an ineffective way of learning, especially in learning how to teach. This results from a lack of communication between instructor and learner in online material. For example, sometimes when a lecturer observed that some concepts are not understood by most of the people, he slows down to explain more on the concepts. However, online materials are recorded and fixed. With the limitation of online materials, the second plan is not as efficient as the first plan.
Considering from inclusiveness and effectiveness, the first plan which makes a small group of outstanding teachers to learn from an expert first is way better the second plan.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, so, then, for example, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 43.0788530466 44% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1611.0 1977.66487455 81% => OK
No of words: 319.0 407.700716846 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05015673981 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22617688928 4.48103885553 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80892087072 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 212.727598566 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.520376175549 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 486.0 618.680645161 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.7234002911 48.9658058833 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.7647058824 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7647058824 20.6045352989 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.45110844103 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.246361667447 0.236089414692 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.086567726892 0.076458572812 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105896798758 0.0737576698707 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164330116111 0.150856017488 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0995453106219 0.0645574589148 154% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 86.8835125448 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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