Some people believe that the most important qualities of an effective teacher are understanding and empathy Others believe that it is more important for teachers to be rigorous and demanding in their expectations for students

If there is one single profession that should be attributed with deciding the future of humanity to largest extent, it is teaching. Teachers are the light to curious minds in following correct path. The given prompt talks about the dilemma in the required qualities of a teacher. While some people might believe that a teacher should be rigorous and demanding, I think most essential qualities of a teacher is to be understanding and having a sense of empathy towards students.

For a classroom of students with varying learning abilities, a teacher with empathy, would understand what individual student lack and help them to succeed. For example, In a mathematics classroom, were a teacher teaching multiplication, post her first class, might end up with students having a different level of computational abilities. Some students might be able to multiply single digit numbers easily but struggle with double digit numbers. A teacher who understands the students exact problems will be able to help them by careful explanation of double digit multiplication again.
however, if the teacher is more demanding, he might end up beating the student for not doing the calculation correctly and demand to do it again. This lacerating of student is futile. If a student doesn't understand something, simply demanding him to perform well will not bring up epiphany in him. Hence having a sense of empathy for students, is most essential for teachers to understand student issues and help them.

Moreover, students come to class class to pursue what he wants to learn rather than what teacher can demand from him. Based on individual capacities people might aspire to learn at different extents or may be their purpose of learning is not same. A teacher with a common demand to whole class will certainly become a hindrance to student's requirements. consider an engineering college were most of the students want to learn in a way that is more industry inclined, so they want to learn their subjects by doing more projects. It's possible that teacher is more academia oriented and she encourages students to publish more research papers rather than doing projects. This would not go hand in hand with the students desires. Hence it's important that teachers understand what students want to pursue and adopt a teaching mechanism that helps students rather than demanding what interests them.

Some people might argue that, if teacher is not rigorously demanding students might ignore studies. But if only demand could help students to learn, why would we need teachers altogether? Even parents, friends and society around us could demand student to learn a lot of things without understanding the students problem in learning them. So to summarize, the most important qualities for a teacher is to be understanding and having a sense of empathy towards students.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, well, while, for example, i think

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2403.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 465.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16774193548 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78716646667 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462365591398 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 711.0 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.4698324655 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.47826087 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2173913043 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.65217391304 5.21951772744 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.430800365379 0.243740707755 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.132864455629 0.0831039109588 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0904703116308 0.0758088955206 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264122953337 0.150359130593 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0555831804341 0.0667264976115 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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