Thank you Romana.

Dear Mark

Each student is different, has its own personality and way of learning, but in the face of heterogeneous classes, teachers can identify those considered "good students".

A good student is one who has a family supporting and rooting for his success , who is interested in learning, is balanced emotionally and is able to live in a social group, respecting others and knowing that have to take chances to build new knowledge

This is not to standardize behaviors or create a model to be followed, but to encourage attitudes that contribute to learning and a good student-school relationship

Thank you Nelson. We have been trying to describe teachable characteristics of a good learner for the purpose of teaching or devloping those attributes explicitly. So far we have come up with 5 words that could embody those characteristics. I don't have the words at my fingertips, but when I do, I will post them and ask for comments..

The 5 words are:

Engage ... establish interest, desired outcomes, curiousity

Connect ... to existing knowledge,to possible ideas, to the world, to others for help, be open minded

Enquire ... ask, seek information, explore, research, analyse

Reflect ... on where you are in the task, on how well it links to criteria,on what needs to be done to finish, on whether it is a 'good job', on the information you gathered.

Persist ... see it through, do more than necessary, make it a good job, not just finised, if you get blocked seek help, don't give up have patience, be creative.

What do you think

Dear Mark,

The five words are good ones, but I would like to add one more:

Create ... problem solving, creating new ideas, thinking outside the box, taking knowledge and experiences to a higher level of conceptualization

As a teacher I find it most stimulating when a good student pick up knowledge, elaborate on it and challenge me with creative solutions and ideas.

Thank you Lisbeth. I agree completely and will suggest it to my colleagues. The addition of CREATE chnages the intent of the words from external to internal (to the student) which I really like.

Your welcome Mark, and thanks for the important remark.

Dear Gould, 

Below you will see some interesting articles about your topic. Your topic is very interesting. I hope you find them useful.

Kind regards, 

Kostas

http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/seven-characteristics-good-learners/

https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/seven-characteristics-good-learners

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedfiles/schools/kempmilles/dualprogram/characteristics_of_good_learners.pdf

http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2013/06/04/effective-learners/

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dfstephe/14characteristics.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16828263

Thank you Kostas. I will read them with interest.

Thank you Kostas. I will read them with interest.