Reasons Behind an Outstanding Student

By Hu Wo (Cuckoo’s Song)

 

SOME people may think that a student tends to become an outstanding one simply due to his or her born ability. It cannot be said this is correct at all. I agree that many students turn out to be natural geniuses, but it will happen to­gether with other external fac­tors. As for me, an outstanding student may or may not have an excellent memory, but surely, he or she is given to own nev­er-undiminished perseverance and greater intrinsic motivation than a normal student. Not only that, outstanding students are usually inclined to bring ben­efits for both themselves and others. Now, I want to describe the reasons behind being an out­standing student, depending on my over ten years of teaching experience.

 

Some students themselves are hungry for education. They always do loud and still whatev­er brings education. Often they are eager to learn something new and also physically, men­tally or emotionally ready to do so. As always, they can manage to avert physical fatigue due to their sports or games, mental fatigue due to their relationship with family members, friends or teachers and emotional fatigue due to their close neighbourhood or atmosphere, even though they get involved in these situations. They like to go to school regular­ly and even without a day’s leave throughout the whole academic year. They are seldom browned off with revising or reviewing their well-taken school lessons.

 

Students by instinct or with very intrinsic motivation could do well in their studies without any external motivation. In spite of this, teachers should play a huge role in students’ learning success. Some students have a terrible memory and like learning by rote as usual, but when they have a chance to be taught by seasoned teachers, their learning achievement is more likely to be considerable than they expect. If students with poor memory can do great in their studies together with ex­perienced teachers, how much improvement of learning effect will highly intelligent students get in studying school subjects? Thanks to skilled teachers, good students will become better and then better students can be top of the best scholars’ list. This is because skilful teachers can take control of their students’ positive or negative emotions, make use of effective pedagogy in accordance with students’ likes or needs, practise or guide students as much as necessary and have affection or interest in school children.

 

Some parents want their children to be educated so much, especially those who had very little schooling in their child­hood or those well-educated. But here, students’ academic success will evidently differ from each other on account of their guardians’ parenting style. In actual fact, parents are the very first teachers of a child, also as the Myanmar saying goes. Some parents wish their children to get educated as much as they can, yet they often neglect to financially provide for their chil­dren even if they can afford it. On the other hand, honest to say, that some parents are un­able to give financial support to their children’s education. All parents, great and small, should provide physical help for stu­dents on the way to school at least, driving them to school for example, if they desire their stu­dents’ educational accomplish­ment. It is certain that under no circumstance will only parents’ financial assistance be adequate for outstanding students in the future. Astute parents of their children’s education are non-in­dulgent people as well as they will be able to use the carrot and the stick for the children as much as needed.

 

A safe, well-developed, en­joyable learning environment looks like a great external mo­tivator for an outstanding stu­dent’s education. Sometimes an educational environment stimulates an average student to develop into a better scholar. The educated who can make an adequate living as per their qualification are role models to young students in the education­al environment. Of course, such an environment can be viewed as an atmosphere of education­al competition among students, that is, the atmosphere arouses students’ endeavour to get into the top ten, not that of beauty, clothing and jewellery competi­tions, as well as will contribute essential material and energy to efficient learning of students. In the main, only an education­ally improved environment is an environment of education. A traditional economics- or agri­culture-oriented society is not an educational community.

 

On the other side, there are several reasons for not being an outstanding student to a learn­er. Some students themselves appear indifferent to their ed­ucation. Hence, even though their parents would like them to pursue education only, it stands to reason that the children will never excel in their studies. Un­fortunately for them, some stu­dents do not find an opportunity to learn from good teachers who have mastery of both subject matter and instructional meth­ods. Unless these students have powerful self-directed learning or independent study, they will also infrequently do extreme­ly well in their school subjects. Some students compete against others for classroom learning activities, but they do not study at home for love or money, knowing that other students do not do their homework, either. The worst of it is that students are learning in an environment where their educational efforts hardly ever bear fruit.

 

The main reason behind an outstanding student is the student himself. A student will have been an outstanding schol­ar only if he wants to actually. Apparently enough, outstand­ing students attend school and other classes that are worth­while going without fail. They have everything in readiness for a lesson start. Rarely do they bring such personal feelings as hunger, thirst, sorrow, depres­sion, despair, hopelessness, and anger due to someone or something into the classroom. They learn quite tactfully from their respective teachers. Even intelligent students will have memorized some subject mat­ter by heart just after class. Whether having short-term memory or long-term memory, some students earnestly revise and review their lessons again and again. Finally, conducting study regularly, setting a suit­ably flexible timetable, having a self-learning style, and taking out an imaginative production in arts or science subjects are other reasons behind an out­standing student.