High school teachers spend most of the class time lecturing while the students listen and take notes. Other high school teachers spend most of the class time on discussion and projects that students are highly involved in and exchange their ideas. Which is more effective for students’ learning
How to decide the proper method to conduct teaching in high schools remains in dispute for many years, since the two sides, one that teachers should spend most of the class time lecturing while students listen and take notes, one that students should highly involve into the projects and exchange their ideas. On account of the demand that students have to firmly command the knowledge, I consider it more rational and efficient to get students involved in the meaningful projects.
Allowing students to engage themselves in academic discussions benefits students by encouraging them to really learn about the specific courses and not just acknowledge them. This is because the projects would activate students by promoting them to put knowledge into use, thus stimulating the comprehension. My partner Cyrene's experience could well corroborate this. When Cyrene was in high school studying biology, her teacher taught an experiment project called ‘rough extraction and identification of DNA’. The teacher only gave them the essential information about it but left the materials and sequence to free discussion. In that case, Cyrene and her classmates had to check what materials containing abundant DNA are pure enough, which strengthened their memories of the earlier courses and developed their awareness of collaboration.
Besides, exchanging ideas promotes students’ capabilities of communication and expression, which is vital to university students and even adults having stepped into society. My cousin Lorry graduated from a high school where teachers encouraged students to exchange their ideas in the class, leading to his better performance in communicating with people compared to his peers in the university. His high school life taught him how to raise an opinion against others’ without giving offense to his opponents, which made him perfectly work as the president of the student union. His communicating skills also contributed to his familiarity with famous professors who are then glad to write a recommendation letter for him. This helps him to fulfill his dream to study in Berkeley.
Granted, lecturing with students listening and taking notes undeniably enables teachers to teach more in less time due to no disturbance from students. To be frank, students who find it difficulty in catching up with the teaching speed can not have an overall understanding of the knowledge, therefore failing to make long-term progress.
To sum up, a firm conclusion could be drawn that teaching with more students involving is definitely a more efficient way compared to lecturing with students parroting what teacher says.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, if, really, so, then, therefore, thus, well, while, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 15.1003584229 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 52.1666666667 125% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2255.0 1977.66487455 114% => OK
No of words: 410.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.5 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96563702675 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 212.727598566 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.60243902439 0.524837075471 115% => OK
syllable_count: 680.4 618.680645161 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.6471173631 48.9658058833 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.9375 100.406767564 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.625 20.6045352989 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0625 5.45110844103 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.409580725212 0.236089414692 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110938253597 0.076458572812 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124313775466 0.0737576698707 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213564559966 0.150856017488 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.137490792721 0.0645574589148 213% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 11.7677419355 147% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 58.1214874552 65% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 10.1575268817 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.92 10.9000537634 137% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.01818996416 119% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 86.8835125448 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 10.002688172 175% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 10.247311828 176% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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