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.
The development of our society raises a higher demand for education. Not only do students face a wider range of knowledge than before, but teachers are required to improve their efficiency. Therefore, the classes for teachers to enhance their teaching skills are in need. As for the given choices, I believe using online training material that each teacher will study individually is more reliable and beneficial.
Admittedly, I concede that choosing a small group of excellent teachers to attend the class first and then providing that training for other teachers in school is acceptable. Those experienced teachers who attend the class at first can make the courses more detailed and suitable for their own school circumstances by combining what the professors said with their own strategies and techniques. Therefore, other teachers in school who are less professional can understand the courses more clearly and know how to exert abstract knowledge in daily life. Additionally, having classes face to face can create a comfortable phenomenon for all participants to have a thorough discussion to perfect teaching strategy.
However, the first method is too time-consuming for teachers. As is known to all, teachers have already been choked with heavy teaching burdens, like correcting students’ homework, preparing courses every day and answering students’ questions. Especially for those who have to teach several classes, it is very common for them to work late at night. Thus, their schedule is relatively tight. If they are required to attend extra intensive classes, it will take them additional time, which may not be able to find a vacant slot in their fully arranged schedule. But if the classes are online, like MOOC, teachers can have classes when they are free since they do not have to follow a set schedule and can watch the class anytime and anywhere. Thus, they have more time to really digest the intricate information.
Furthermore, providing online material allows teachers to select what part of the lecture they are going to listen to by themselves. Each teacher has his own realm and it is possible that what experts impart is something several teachers have already known. So it can be a waste of time and energy for them. But by studying online, they are free to choose the lectures that are fit for them. Meanwhile, there are more resources online except lectures, for instance, video clips and softwares. That means teachers can better strengthen their abilities in multiple ways, which is more effective, and they will have a deeper insight into the new teaching skill.
In sum, I prefer studying online individually since teachers can have a comprehensive grasp of the teaching skills with great ease and convenience and it allows them to have more time to actually exercise it.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, really, so, then, therefore, thus, while, as for, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 52.1666666667 92% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2385.0 1977.66487455 121% => OK
No of words: 458.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20742358079 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78168680962 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510917030568 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 734.4 618.680645161 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.9396502946 48.9658058833 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.409090909 100.406767564 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8181818182 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22727272727 5.45110844103 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.256972336084 0.236089414692 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0825621577619 0.076458572812 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0670860143658 0.0737576698707 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154182436738 0.150856017488 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.067440379174 0.0645574589148 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 11.7677419355 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 10.9000537634 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 86.8835125448 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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