A city wants to help teachers of its high school students (aged 14-18) improve their teaching. It is
considering two plans:
—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;
—Provide additional training in teaching effectively for high school teachers, using online materials
that each teacher will study individually.
As far as I am concerned, first plan is more practical and effective in helping the teachers to improve their teaching.
First and foremost, choosing a small group of teachers to attend lectures could save time and money. Since these teachers are excellent, there will be little difficulty for them to understand the training lectures by experts. Therefore, the lectures won't take very long time. On the other hand, because these teachers will only spend a short time in taking the course, the expense will not be a burden for the school. However, the online courses in the second plan have certain weakness. If the lectures are live, the expense per hour is huge and the schedule is not flexible. Nevertheless, if the lectures are video recordings, the contents may be out-of-date or of inferior quality. Therefore, in terms of economy and time, offline courses are more reliable.
Moreover, offline lectures are more likely to replicate or approximate the high school teaching scenarios because highschool students and teachers speak to each other face to face in reality, in which, for instance, body languages such gestures often get involved in order to make themselves understood. And apparently, attending the lectures in person rather than through Internet could examine if the knowledge is easy to understand when the media and locations are both limited. For example, if you attend online training classes, there is little chance to communicate with others and the experts are neither able to know whether they are understood.
Last but not the least, the process that teachers attending the experts lectures provide training for other teachers is also of great significance. This process is similar to the product testing before the final release. Before some teaching methods are employed in the real classed, those methods should be modified or adapted due to the difference between the theories and practice. And in the process that trained teachers provide training for other teachers, the methods could be tested and localized in order to fit the actual situations in the school. Many factors could influence the effect of those up-to-date methods. For example, the average teachers and distinct students all should be considered.
In conclusion, it is better to attend the experts in person and provide training for other teachers later. Not only because of the economy and money, but also because the offline courses provide similar scenarios and the sharing process can test and modify the methods.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, for example, for instance, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.0286738351 36% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 43.0788530466 32% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2127.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 407.0 407.700716846 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22604422604 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49157444576 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60186235477 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 212.727598566 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503685503686 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 660.6 618.680645161 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 9.59856630824 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.7389636846 48.9658058833 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.35 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.35 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.7 5.45110844103 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209347567981 0.236089414692 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.065501295193 0.076458572812 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0691925853952 0.0737576698707 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123356895072 0.150856017488 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0313876138784 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: 13.4 11.7677419355 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 10.9000537634 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 86.8835125448 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => 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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