Imagine that you are in a classroom or a meeting. The teacher or the meeting leader says something incorrect In your opinion, which of the following is the best thing to do?-Interrupt and correct the mistake right away-Wait until the class or meeting is o

Correcting other’s mistakes in a constructive way is a delicate skill. When someone realized a meeting leader or a teacher said an incorrect thing, must take many different aspects into account before trying to correct that mistake. Waiting until the end of the meeting or class and then talking about the correct idea would be better than saying it right away during the meeting or class or simply ignoring it.

If my colleague or my teacher says something which is not correct, I could interrupt her/him, mention the wrong thing and explain about the correct concept. If the mistake she/he has just made could cause misunderstanding, this method could have some benefit for all audiences as it prevented everyone from learning something or thinking about something wrong. On the other, I might hurt her/his confidence or distract the speaker if I speak during the conversation.

In my opinion the best thing I could do, is waiting until the class or meeting is over then speaking with the speaker privately. If his/her mistake could cause misunderstanding for students in the class or attendants in the meeting, my teacher or my colleague are able to correct that mistake in the next time. For example, in school, my history teacher said dates for two historical events in reverse and assigned a research project according to the dates. I went to his office after the class and told him. He corrected the dates in the next session and clarified the event that we were supposed to do homework about. Furthermore, it is possible that I didn’t interpret the matter correctly and she/he didn’t actually make any mistake. Thus, I didn’t pause her/his speech incorrectly by mentioning a wrong idea over the class or meeting!

Finally, maybe in some situations it is better not to say anything, especially when the mistake doesn’t have a negative impact or it’s not a big deal. But I think, I would always prefer not to turn a blind eye to these kinds of matter. One time in my geometry class, my teacher gave a break while we were solving some questions in the class. After the break she unintentionally skipped a page and started explaining problems from one page ahead. Nobody told her, because we thought they would be similar to other problems the teacher had explained before. However, I didn’t solve some of those skipped problems correctly. The final exam included one of those problems and my answer to the question was not correct.

To summarize, to say something about a mistake that a teacher or a meeting leader had made in a meeting or a class, you should consider the situation and it entails. Although what you want to say is correct and you are going to make a correction, it could cause some negative impacts if you directly debate in in the moment. So, you would better say nothing or talk about the issue after the meeting or class finishes.

Votes
Average: 7 (1 vote)
Essay Categories
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 34, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a constructive way" with adverb for "constructive"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
Correcting other's mistakes in a constructive way is a delicate skill. When someone reali...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 164, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...cher said an incorrect thing, must take many different aspects into account before trying to c...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 308, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: in
...negative impacts if you directly debate in in the moment. So, you would better say no...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 311, Rule ID: IN_THE_MOMENT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'at the moment' (=currently)?
Suggestion: at the moment
...ative impacts if you directly debate in in the moment. So, you would better say nothing or ta...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, thus, while, for example, i think, talking about, in my opinion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 13.8261648746 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 62.0 43.0788530466 144% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2412.0 1977.66487455 122% => OK
No of words: 494.0 407.700716846 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88259109312 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72724583096 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 212.727598566 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504048582996 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 742.5 618.680645161 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.7810287805 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.636363636 100.406767564 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4545454545 20.6045352989 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.81818181818 5.45110844103 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 3.85842293907 363% => Less 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: 0.349459994437 0.236089414692 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0972236693466 0.076458572812 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0960332428339 0.0737576698707 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208225437642 0.150856017488 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100980745806 0.0645574589148 156% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 11.7677419355 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 86.8835125448 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

---------------------

Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.