High school teachers (teachers of students ages 14-18) spend most, of their class time lecturing (speaking) while the students listen and take notes. Other high school teachers spend most of the class their time on discussions 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?
One of the most significant eras in anybody’s life is the time of high school, which will prepare students in a more necessary aspect of life. Therefore, the teacher’s role will be considered so prominent, and their ways of teaching play a dominant role in student lives. A controversial question that has always been the center of contention and brought up heated debates is whether teachers involving their students in class while teaching or not. Although some high school teacher spends most of the class time lecturing while the students listen and take notes, others spend most of the class time on debating and discussion. In contrast, students are highly involved in and exchange their ideas. I found the second idea more fruitful. In what follows, I will try to provide some reason to support my statement.
First and foremost, nowadays, in this modern era, teachers are the ones who teach students for the future. Teaching students will have consequences on their lives, and it will also play a decisive role in society. Students should have the power of debating and discussing statements which they are involved in. They should be able to express their ideas so that it can help the community they interact with, and the best way to learn these skills is in the school. Whenever teachers say some statements, they can discuss it and learn how to agree or disagree with the idea expressed. Students can learn to speak in a group of people and present in a way that does not hurt anybody. As a supportive case to my point, a group of researchers studied, and It shows that a group of students who had engaged in the class discussion was more successful.
The equally important reason is that teachers will be more effective when their students are sending feedback to them. Whenever teachers are aware that their students are listening to them carefully, they are more careful not to say something, therefore it will improve the class. On the other hand, when students discuss the statements in class and ask questions, the question will help another student to understand better. For instance, I am going to write about the experience myself. I was a lecturer in a workshop about technology, and the students were in two groups. For the first group, I talk and do not allow them to discuss at they take notes, and for the second group, I did vice versa. At the end of the workshop, I took a quiz about the statements in the seminar, and the result was much better for one group of students that allowed discussion.
In conclusion, considering the mentioned reason above, it is better to say that discussing statements in class in high school help students to learn how to express their idea. It also helps teachers to give feedback from students and improve their way of teaching.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, second, so, therefore, while, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 20.0 7.30242825607 274% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 22.412803532 201% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 30.3222958057 218% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2324.0 1373.03311258 169% => OK
No of words: 483.0 270.72406181 178% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8115942029 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68799114503 4.04702891845 116% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60361824723 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 145.348785872 151% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453416149068 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 693.0 419.366225166 165% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 3.25607064018 369% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.51434878587 462% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 13.0662251656 176% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.393031923 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.043478261 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.60869565217 7.06452816374 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 4.33554083885 300% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.458092036543 0.272083759551 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137348931239 0.0996497079465 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.126295483056 0.0662205650399 191% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.309136184768 0.162205337803 191% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.123879962425 0.0443174109184 280% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 63.6247240618 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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