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?
By the fast rate of technology improvement, we are facing a great demand for professional science and graduated people. The main purpose of educational system is to fill these demands. In this regard, students’ education plays a vital role in this system. Although some people might believe that the teachers should spend class time on lecturing, I strongly believe that for having a better education result, teachers should to participate the students in the class discussions to have a better learning results in lessons and social activities on which I will elaborate my ideas in the subsequent paragraphs.
Firstly, learning has a sophisticated process, and different methods are proposed to achieve the learning goals, and one of the most important learning methods is the Discussion Cycle. To be more specific, Discussion Cycle is divided to 4 four main steps: hearing, analyzing, consulting, and presenting. The main goal of the Cycle is to participating the students in the discussions to students can easily analyze the concepts, and present the ideas. A recent study has shown that the result of the Discussion Cycle in comparison to other methods is significantly higher. For example, I had a teacher in our school who guide us to make discussions in the class about physics concepts; after a while, I had an exam in the university, and the question was so hard; it was related to school's physic concepts, so I easily answered the question, and achieved the class top rank. Now, I think if I had not participated in the school discussions, I would have not answered the questions in the class correctly, so I highly recommend participating in the class discussions.
Secondly, students after graduating from the schools need to have social treatments by others; also they need to participate in much teamwork to can achieve the goals. The best way for learning how to teamwork, or learn how to treat in the society is participating in the class discussion. To clarify this notion, class discussion provides many useful lessons to us; by discussing you would learn how to treat with your opponents and friends. Furthermore, you learn have to get help from your friends, or have to manage a group to achieve a right answer in the discussion. For example, all of my experimental classes were held with a class discussion, and students had to participate in the class. In the class beginning, we had a lot of problem with our friend for finding the answer since we cannot work with together. After a while, the more we discussed in the class, the more we learned how to work as a team. In this regard, I think giving chance to students for participating in a class discussion can be a useful learning method.
To sum up, for have a better learning method I significantly believe that student should discuss and participate in the class discussions. Discussing in the class not only help students to learn better, but it also help them to learn how to behave in the society and teamwork.
- do you agree or disagree with the following statement The government should spend more money on improving access to the internet than on public transportation 68
- Students can learn as much by watching films as they learn by reading books 91
- It is commonly believed that in life success is not the most important thing It is more important to remain happy and optimistic when we fail 71
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Two people can still become good friends if one of them has more money than the other one does 85
- All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is 73
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 466, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to have'
Suggestion: to have
...nts and friends. Furthermore, you learn have to get help from your friends, or have ...
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Line 3, column 729, Rule ID: A_LOT_OF_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun problem seems to be countable; consider using: 'a lot of problems'.
Suggestion: a lot of problems
...e class. In the class beginning, we had a lot of problem with our friend for finding the answer ...
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Line 4, column 195, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to better', 'to well'
Suggestion: to better; to well
...e class not only help students to learn better, but it also help them to learn how to ...
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Line 4, column 215, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'helps'?
Suggestion: helps
...p students to learn better, but it also help them to learn how to behave in the soci...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, while, for example, i think, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 52.1666666667 151% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2493.0 1977.66487455 126% => OK
No of words: 508.0 407.700716846 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90748031496 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93735286969 2.67179642975 110% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452755905512 0.524837075471 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 753.3 618.680645161 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 10.0 1.86738351254 536% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 67.2950778289 48.9658058833 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.65 100.406767564 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4 20.6045352989 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2 5.45110844103 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => 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: 0.249946791248 0.236089414692 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0759960629575 0.076458572812 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562980338603 0.0737576698707 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160989738283 0.150856017488 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0317130364908 0.0645574589148 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 58.1214874552 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 10.9000537634 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 86.8835125448 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.002688172 150% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => 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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