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What does "an exceptional student" mean to you?
On what basis are above-average students identified?
All Answers (45)
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Creativity with particularly talented individuals. -
A student with determination, persistence, and resilience. -
An exceptional student has an inquiring mind,is respectful, applies knowledge to practice,persistent, open-minded,interacts well with peers and faculty, participates in extra-curricula activities and community activities, and maintains an A average.
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Our first goal; high school success or to gain individual goals..... which is -
Perhaps we should be asking what helps each individual be exceptional? -
Exceptional students are of two types- gifted as everybody has commented and disabled. Physically disabled, learning disabled and delinquent child is also considered as an exceptional or special child. If we study the normal probability curve than the concept would be more clear.
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Physically disabled child is very exceptional child.
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Student is a very good.student is avery hard work i college. -
According to the teacher "all children are exceptional...."
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David Hemery, former Olympic 400m hurdles champion, has achieved exceptional things. He once showed me a picture of himself when he was 14 with his classmates. If you would have asked who is the Olympic Champion you never would have picked the small child who looked four years younger than the rest. He was a very late developer. Similarly he left Primary school not reading and writing fluently but has now published four books and lectured. The danger is as teachers we push people towards what we think they should do without using their motivations and context.
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Exceptional child is one who is deviant from normal in physical ,mental, social and emotional traits.It includes both positive and negative deviants.Gifted ,physically challenged and disabled are included.
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According to bell curve higher achiever & lower achiever both are exceptional -
宋-張載:讀書人 為天地立心，為生民立命，為往聖繼絕學，為萬世開太平 -
Can the exceptional student also include the Traumati Brain Injury survivor which moves from the under achiever to the over achieverf
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The question to ask is: for whom should be exceptional, for industry, society, for the same?
My 6th grade teacher told my mother, your child is not secondary education as it is not excellent, better send it to learn a craft.
I ask myself, is not that educational models are very concerned with who is the best according to standard instead of worrying about the best out of each of our students and not see education as a competition.
¿Excellence for?
Someone once told me, you see that lawyer as a lawyer is an excellent mechanic.
Society pressures you to be excellent and that many people sick. -
Student that has the common intelligence and emotional to tackle the situation for making out way to his desired gaols -
As every student has a motto in life to attain and if his characteristic resembles like the proved one's .He or She is exceptional in his field.
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It depends on context whether it is Physically, Mentally, Spiritually or Socially exceptional. That is one way. Secondly, if he/she is at very very high or very very below the average level of his age in any activity or field.
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....a curious one! -
Colaborativo, solidário, participativo. -
Yes, that is an interesting question. I am looking at how success in education is discursively constructed, and I am reminded that words have meaning only because we agree on that meaning. For instance any technical area with have 'jargon' or vocabulary that is understood with special meaning in a particular context. For example the word 'face' is common enough - we all know what a face is - but move to Linguistics and politeness theory and Face is quite different. My point here is that many, if not most words we use are ambiguous to some degree, and when they involve judgement they are also highly subjective. So our 'exceptional student' or a 'successful student' is one who is beyond a certain point which is contextually set, on a continuum. I think the previous answers illustrate that quite nicely, don't you?
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This is a student who studies and approaches learning with passion and love. A student cannot be that exceptional if he sees learning as a mere requirement and extraneous to his ordinary experiences. Such exceptional student is marked by his active integration, and in the words of Mr. Elisario Palermo, collaborative, solidarity, participative. This student might have been a visionary too because his "exceptionality" may be marked by the certainty and clarity of his passion to learn. -
To me is a student who knows and have clear goals of life, is honest with him or herself and work hard every single day to get what she or she dreams! -
I agree that "exceptional student" is a very subjective. I think it cannot be other, but subjective. For me, an exceptional student is that one who is interesting in knowledge and enjoy learning. There are very little such students for me, but when I find somebody, I know it for sure, because at this moment I also enjoy to be a teacher.
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"exceptional student"is a very little such students for me, It depends on context whether it is Physically, Mentally, Spiritually or Socially exceptional.
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Estoy de acuerdo con lo que dice Boris en que el "estudiante excepcional" es muy subjetivo. Para mí, un estudiante excepcional es aquel que se interesa en el conocimiento y disfruta del aprendizaje (siente placer). No se se trata de cuanto contenido "me vomitó" . Analizo en el estudiante el uso de su estilo sensorial de aprendizaje según PNL.
I agree with what Boris says that the "exceptional student" is very subjective. For me, an exceptional student is one who is interested in learning knowledge and enjoy (take pleasure). Is not about content "threw me." Analyze the student's use of sensory learning style as NLP. -
One who shows me learning beyond my own. Sorry it sounds rather pompous. -
Dear Fernando:
Do you use the NLP techniques in your teaching?
Dear Mark:
It is not pompous. When I found such a student, I really enjoy to work with him/her and it gives me a new strength to learn more for myself. Sometimes, there is a feeling that you can see how their brain are working and it is amazing. And their is something to learn... -
As it has been expressed, sometimes the exceptional student is identified as the one that present characteristics associated to a high degree of motivation in learning, behavior that in time elicits the teacher motivation.
However, we should be careful since too often we frame the exceptional student according to our viewpoints and paradigms. The core issue should be ¿Which characteristic should be considered to label a student as exceptional? If we aim to be consistent with the concepts previously posed, we could include characteristics such as critical analysis and sense, problem-solving abilities and proactive behavior, among others. However, students having those characteristics are often recognized as exceptional only if they display high academic performance.
We should think then ¿is a student exceptional to the educational system or to life? And ask ourselves ¿or is a student exceptional only is he or she complies the educational demands and is able to put into practice the abilities for life? I take this last option. -
Boris, if used. Although I am not of those works within a theory. Also I follow VIgoski, Asubel, Gestalt, Montessori, Comenius. I think we should not be dogmatic.
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For me is one who has a passion for knowledge, who likes challenges and not give up. He who realizes that to get more knowledge feel more ignorant -
También los excepcionales estudiantes surgen con mayor facilidad en colegios con determinadas propuestas pedagógicas holisticas , no positivistas. Lo vi en mi museo en el dia de hoy con una escuela con una propuesta de educación natural.
Also exceptional students emerge more easily in schools with certain holistic pedagogical proposals, not positivists. I saw it in my museum on this day with a school with a proposed natural education. -
Lo importante es jamás sentirse limitado el conocimiento es infinito, cada día aprendemos nuevas cosas, el mejor regalo que puede tener el ser humano es el raciocinio y la inteligencia.
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1. Student having wisdom to do something for the needy i.e. Student who really want to apply what he/ she learns.
2. Student who really want to learn something new and innovative.
3. Student with good oral/written communication skills.
4. Student who have respect for the subject matter, teacher, & society.
5. Student who have good mathematical skill etc. -
Simply a student that surprisingly goes beyond my expectations and that is aestonishing me (provoking the "wow" effect!). -
The exceptional student is not just one who is above average. Think inclusion. We are all exceptional and have talents. The teacher needs to find the talents and create learning around those talents so that the student connects what is taught with an action at which he/she excel. -
The exceptional student mean god gift.
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I think an Exceptional child is the one who is far more superior or far more inferior than those of normal children. they deviate in their capacities in one or more characteristics from the normal children. -
On average, once every five years I would, with pleasure, give a student 100% and I could write on a testimonial for such a student that "He or she was an exceptional student". At roughly one hundred students per year, that makes him or her a student in 500. So, by my rough reckoning, exceptional students are the top 0.2% of our intake. Cherish the moment! -
an exceptional student may not have high grades. An exceptional student is someone who criticize the current establishment and comes with fresh ideas. He/she maybe disliked by the old guard, but nevertheless, he/she is exceptional. Such a student usually not admitted into a PhD project by the old guard. He/She is dependent on competitive grants. But he/she will have an impact on the academic world, once he gets into academic research. Only after many years people see the value in his/her works. -
We should be careful about our terminology. The expression "exceptional student" could also be used to identify special needs students. For example, In Florida, children who have special learning needs are called exceptional students.
Exceptional students include children who are gifted and children who have disabilities.
Above average students are called gifted or talented students. Each has its own definition:
Gifted students are those whose potential is distinctly above average in one or more of the following domains: intellectual, creative, social and physical.
Talented students are those whose skills are distinctly above average in one or more areas of human performance. -
@ Issam,
Indeed the term exceptional is used to refer to any child that is above or below the "average" on the spectrum of learning ability. I have written Mustafa that discussed just this very topic: what is an exceptional child and how to we define them? The answer is not simple, rather like any good question, the answer is complex and includes the understanding of multiple developmental domains (i.e. cognitive, social, emotional). One must remember the exceptional child (gifted level of the spectrum) is unique with various needs and will develop asynchronously.
According to the U.S. Department of Education (2001) gifted individuals are "Students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.
The National Association for Gifted Children included in its 2008 definition "“those who demonstrate outstanding levels of aptitude or competence in one or more domains." And as“an asynchronous development in which cognitive abilities and keen intensity merge to create inner experiences and awareness that are qualitatively different from the norm.”
I could go on and on listing different definitions, but the key is to remember the gifted child has abnormal development in one or several areas which will affect all other domains.
