High school teachers (teachers of students ages 14-18) spend most of class time lecturing (speaking) while the students listen and take notes. Other high school teachers spend most of class time on discussion and projects that students are highly involved in and exchange their ideas. Which of these two approaches do you think is more effective for student learning and why?
In today's modern and sophisticated world, teachers make an effort to improve the educational system. In this connection, several avenues are presented to increase students learning efficiency. Although contested by many that the matter of involving students during class time is highly beneficial, such an issue is regarded both constructive and positive by a substantial number of individuals. I concur with the notion that pupils do not successfully learn unless they discuss their lessons during class time, and I will analyze my reasons throughout this essay.
Firstly, when students have a debate on their ideas during a class, they can gain a tremendous amount of knowledge, so it is an efficient method for them. To be more specific, each learner has specific ideas about subjects, and by discussing it during a class, others can be familiar with a wide variety of notions, which broaden their horizon. According to my own experience, when I was a high school student, my teacher asked pupils to solve mathematics problems and explain our solutions for other classmates. Since most of the students did not answer them in the same way, it provided insight into different approaches; hence, it increased our mathematics knowledge. Moreover, it encouraged learners to search for solutions to achieve efficient approaches before expressed in a class.
Secondly, if teachers force all students to be involved in class discussions, they will correct students whose information is false, so they learn effectively. To elucidate, when teachers monitor students who take part in discussions, they will help them to comprehend subjects crystal clear if they either make a mistake or have vague information. For example, when I discussed one of a chemistry concept during a class with my classmates, we had a strong disagreement on the topic. After my teacher listened to our arguments, she realized that I did not understand one cardinal fact accurately, so it caused misunderstanding. As a result, she warned me about incorrect data, so I grasped my fault and accepted my friends' explanations. Otherwise, I did not avoid inaccurate learnings.
To conclude, while there are several arguments on both sides, I profoundly believe that students should participate in class discussions. Not only does it help them to widen their information, but it also decreases the occurrence of errors.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, for example, as a result, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 52.1666666667 92% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2017.0 1977.66487455 102% => OK
No of words: 379.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32189973615 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07614601508 2.67179642975 115% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604221635884 0.524837075471 115% => OK
syllable_count: 618.3 618.680645161 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.51792114695 284% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => 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: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.320702525 48.9658058833 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.647058824 100.406767564 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2941176471 20.6045352989 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.94117647059 5.45110844103 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => 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: 0.286764788681 0.236089414692 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0813104074053 0.076458572812 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610965451444 0.0737576698707 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163121741412 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.046651567251 0.0645574589148 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 11.7677419355 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 58.1214874552 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 10.9000537634 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.69 8.01818996416 121% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 86.8835125448 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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