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?
Classes where students engage a lot of discussion and classes where teacher does most of the talking each have their own advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion, classes with a lot of discussion and projects are better than those without. I feel this way for a couple of reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, I feel that classes where I have the opportunity to speak help me to develop my intellectual abilities. Classes, where the teacher does all of the talking,<span class="hiddenSuggestion" pre="does "></span> are very passive, in my opinion. They mostly involve memorization of facts and details and do not help students in the long run. On the other hand, Classes involve a lot of debates and interaction create very intelligent students. For example, my science teacher in high school has a significant impact on my life. Since we were free to participate in debate and discussion, my way of thinking about the world changed dramatically. The cut and thrust the debates helped me consider where are my beliefs came from and if they were actually true or not. I was required to listen to the opinions of others, so I was a more open-minded person after the class finished. I believe that I would not develop in this way by just listening to lectures and taking notes. This example demonstrates how valuable discussion-based classes can be.
In addition, Classes involve a lot of discussion help students to develop the skills necessary to work in a group. A large number of freshman students arrive at university very shy and unable to communicate well. However, if students practice by participating in discussions, they will develop their communicating skills and even they can excel in their future career. My older brother's experience demonstrates that this is true. When he started high school, he was a very introverted person and he did not enjoy either communicating or working with others. However, after four years of participating in debates and presentations and discussions, he became a more confident person. As a result, when he started his career he excelled in group work and was seen by his co-workers and supervisors as a natural leader. He promoted very quickly and advanced through the rank of his company. Without participating in discussion with his teachers and classmates he would not develop the skills necessary to succeed in this way.
To wrap it up, I strongly feel that classes which are centered on discussions between teachers and students are preferable to those that the teacher does all the talking. This is because such classes help students to develop academically and because they teach students the skills that they need to find success in the future.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, however, if, so, well, for example, i feel, in addition, as a result, in my opinion, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 13.8261648746 166% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 43.0788530466 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 52.1666666667 125% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2310.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 455.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07692307692 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.27965113705 2.67179642975 123% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49010989011 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 714.6 618.680645161 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.3695030318 48.9658058833 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 96.25 100.406767564 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9583333333 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.29166666667 5.45110844103 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267000536649 0.236089414692 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0740546691592 0.076458572812 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0669772782999 0.0737576698707 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18347554249 0.150856017488 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.045402763937 0.0645574589148 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 86.8835125448 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => 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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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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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