High school teachers spend most of the class time lecturing while the students listen and take notes. Other high school teachers spend most of the class time on discussion and projects that students are highly involved in and exchange their ideas. Which is more effective for students’ learning
How to decide the appropriate method to conduct teaching in high schools remains in dispute for many years, since the two sides, one that teachers should spend most of the class time lecturing while students listen and take notes, one that students should highly involve into the projects and exchange their ideas. On account of the demand that students have to firmly command the knowledge, I consider it more rational and efficient to get students involved in the meaningful projects.
To begin with, allowing students to participate in academic discussions benefits students by encouraging them to really learn about the specific courses rather than just acknowledge them. This is because the projects would activate students by promoting them to put knowledge into use, thus stimulating the comprehension. The experience of my partner Cyrene could well corroborate this. When Cyrene was in high school studying biology, her teacher taught an experiment project called ‘rough extraction and identification of DNA’. The teacher only gave them the essential information about it but left the materials and sequence to free discussion. In that case, Cyrene and her classmates had to review what materials containing abundant DNA are pure enough, which strengthened their memories of the previous courses and developed their awareness of collaboration.
Besides, the part of exchanging ideas, in a way, promotes students’ capabilities of communication and expression, which is of vital importance to university students and even adults having stepped into society. My cousin Lorry graduated from a high school where teachers encouraged students to exchange their ideas in the class, leading to his better performance in communicating with people compared to his peers in the university. His high school life taught him how to raise a opinion against others’ without giving offense to his opponents, which made him perfectly work as the president of the student union. Moreover, his skills at communicating contributed to his familiarity with famous professors who were willing to write a recommendation letter for him, fulfilling his dream of being admitted to Berkeley.
Lecturing with students listen and take notes, however, is undeniable a universal approach to teaching, since it enables teachers to achieve a shorter period of teaching all the lessons. To be frank, does quantity equal to quality? In my respective, never does it. Students merely learn by listening and taking notes but hardly have an overall understanding of the knowledge, therefore failing to have a memory and progress in the long term.
To sum up, given the discussion above, a firm conclusion could be drawn that teaching with more students involving is definitely a more efficient way compared to lecturing with students parroting what teacher says.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, however, if, moreover, really, so, then, therefore, thus, well, while, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 43.0788530466 81% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 52.1666666667 140% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2418.0 1977.66487455 122% => OK
No of words: 442.0 407.700716846 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47058823529 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97604548128 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 212.727598566 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592760180995 0.524837075471 113% => OK
syllable_count: 740.7 618.680645161 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
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: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.317732918 48.9658058833 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.235294118 100.406767564 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 20.6045352989 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.41176470588 5.45110844103 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => 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: 0.418431589496 0.236089414692 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105951207179 0.076458572812 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121914771996 0.0737576698707 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.216991054335 0.150856017488 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.136306284357 0.0645574589148 211% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 11.7677419355 147% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 58.1214874552 63% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 10.1575268817 144% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.74 10.9000537634 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.78 8.01818996416 122% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 86.8835125448 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.002688172 180% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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