Students should always question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively.
Education shapes our mindsets and lives in uncanny ways. Educational institutions are primarily established to focus on learning by different methods to make it easier and more valuable for students to learn things. Classrooms are the cardinal sources of information gain and studying. Teachers/ Professors employ various methods to teach their classes and make them interactive so that students can learn and retain information easily and for longer time. Though, it is the responsibility of both students and teachers equally, rather than teachers alone, to make this interaction possible and beneficial at their ends. Students can make this interactivity effective by raising questions whenever they don’t understand anything rather than accepting the facts and methods passively.
Classroom learning is most effective when teachers and students participate actively. How would it feel like for a student if the teacher just comes in, scribbles some facts and phenomena on the blackboard, or shows some presentation while mumbling certain things in a monotonous manner and just leaves when the time is up? Not good, right. Students would get way too bored to listen and respond to anything, and not understand much of anything taught. In a similar sense, if the students just keep listening passively and scribble something in their notebooks, it won’t be any fun for the professor teaching the class. If students participate in the class, ask questions, it buttresses the enthusiasm of the teacher to give his/her best and teach better. So, active learning is helpful to the person teaching the subject.
Not only does active learning bring out the best from the teacher, it fosters better learning for the students as well. Maybe you don’t understand something, or have a doubt regarding the viability of what is being taught, raising questions leads to more information and clarification of the doubt. The professor would try to substantiate what is being taught by giving more examples, using some simpler language or a real-life analogy to explain it better to the students. If no questions are asked, he/she would keep going thinking the students don’t have any doubts regarding the subject matter he/she is teaching.
Corroborating the above factor regarding the benefits of active learning, asking questions results in better retention of facts and information too. When we raise questions and doubts, those things stick in our memory longer than any passively retained fact/information. We can recall that information by always remembering that we asked a certain question and how the professor clarified the doubt. Asking questions activates our neurons and our mind is then able to relate to the information being grasped by relating it to the information we already have, example, some incidents in life, some prior fact we know etc. This creates a virtual image in our brain and thus we are able to retain that information better and for longer duration.
Thus, active learning is beneficial for both teachers and students to learn effectively and have a better retention of information taught. Students should cater to it, and raise as many doubts as they have, in order for them as well as others to learn better. No matter how silly or petty the question is, it is better to speak up than to keep doubts and hamper learning. This is how classroom environment can be made better for learning and overall development of students.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 265, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a monotonous manner" with adverb for "monotonous"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...sentation while mumbling certain things in a monotonous manner and just leaves when the time is up? No...
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Line 5, column 31, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to bring'
Suggestion: to bring
...bject. Not only does active learning bring out the best from the teacher, it foste...
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Line 5, column 451, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'betters', 'wells'?
Suggestion: betters; wells
...ge or a real life analogy to explain it better to the students. If no questions are as...
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Line 9, column 253, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to better', 'to well'
Suggestion: to better; to well
...der for them as well as others to learn better. No matter how silly or petty the quest...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.223316912972 0.240241500013 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.185550082102 0.157235817809 118% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0771756978654 0.0880659088768 88% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0706075533662 0.0497285424764 142% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0492610837438 0.0444667217837 111% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0903119868637 0.12292977631 73% => OK
Participles: 0.0574712643678 0.0406280797675 141% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.80857549935 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0361247947455 0.030933414821 117% => OK
Particles: 0.00492610837438 0.0016655270985 296% => Less particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0935960591133 0.0997080785238 94% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0147783251232 0.0249443105267 59% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0164203612479 0.0148568991511 111% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3465.0 2732.02544248 127% => OK
No of words: 557.0 452.878318584 123% => OK
Chars per words: 6.22082585278 6.0361032391 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85807034144 4.58838876751 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.407540394973 0.366273622748 111% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.308797127469 0.280924506359 110% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.233393177738 0.200843997647 116% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.152603231598 0.132149295362 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80857549935 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 219.290929204 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475763016158 0.48968727796 97% => OK
Word variations: 56.9166131621 55.4138127331 103% => OK
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6194690265 126% => OK
Sentence length: 21.4230769231 23.380412469 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.3443638369 59.4972553346 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.269230769 141.124799967 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4230769231 23.380412469 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.384615384615 0.674092028746 57% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 52.3027896699 51.4728631049 102% => OK
Elegance: 1.21505376344 1.64882698954 74% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.164831199894 0.391690518653 42% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.132257164393 0.123202303941 107% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0757064353899 0.077325440228 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.515305034956 0.547984918172 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.142939731606 0.149214159877 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0616357099176 0.161403998019 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0368097599227 0.0892212321368 41% => The sentences are too close to each other.
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.390015723612 0.385218514788 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0719923766667 0.0692045440612 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110411951686 0.275328986314 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0281661909743 0.0653680567796 43% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.4325221239 173% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 14.0 7.22455752212 194% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.70907079646 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 16.0 13.5995575221 118% => OK
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6