Qualities of  a good student

I.Attitude :-A manner of acting, feeling, or thinking that shows one's disposition, opinion, etc.

The definition of an attitude is of an attitude is a way of feeling or acting toward a student, thing or situation.

Passion for a sport, dislike for a certain actor and negativity toward life in general are each an example of an attitude.

The position or posture assumed by the body in connection with an action, feeling, mood, etc.

To kneel in an attitude of prayer.

One's disposition, opinion, mental set, etc.

A manner of thinking, feeling, or behaving that reflects a state of mind or disposition.

Has a positive attitude about work; kept a dignified attitude throughout the crisis.

II. Academic skills:-

1. Academic Discourse: responding to and asking questions

Many teachers ask their students to practice presentations in class and this is a great skill to have. However, it’s very easy to overlook the students who aren’t speaking. By asking these students to prepare follow-up questions for the speakers, you can transform this activity into an active listening task. After the presentation has finished, conduct a student-led Q&A session, and provide feedback to the speakers on how they can better deal with difficult questions.

Give your students extra motivation by offering a prize for the person that asks the most interesting question.

2. Academic Text Strategies: looking for inferred meaning in texts

Being able to make inferences is a very important academic reading skill. It not only helps students understand the text, but also encourages students to ‘read between the lines’ and look for deeper meaning.

How, then, can you strengthen this skill in the classroom? First, try developing this skill without a text. You can use short videos or pictures in which students can try to infer the meaning of the photo. Once students have practiced this several times, move on to short texts. Take the first paragraph of a short story for example, and have students make inferences about the character, the plot and other aspects of the story using evidence from the text. Provide them with the rest of the story (or a summary if it’s too long) to have them find out whether their guesses were correct or not. 

3. Academic Strategies: writing effective notes

How many of your students find it difficult to both listen and make notes at the same time when they are watching a video or lecture?

Effective note taking is an essential skill for your students to learn before they go on to further education. Using short videos, such as TED Talks, have students take notes while they watch. Then, in pairs or small groups, get your students to combine their notes to ‘recreate the video’ in as much detail as possible. Further extension tasks can then include having the groups summarize their notes into a tweet, or, if it’s a higher-level group, have them paraphrase their notes into their own words.

 4.Composition: developing a coherent argument

When having class discussions, how effective are your students’ arguments? Producing coherent arguments is a vital skill for learners in higher education, and one that you can practice in the classroom. Find a model, written argument from the opinion section of a newspaper and cut it up into sections for your learners. Have them reorganize the text, and once correct, analyze the different components that make it coherent. Once students have discussed these, have them write their own coherent arguments on a range of topics that interest them. Then have them recite these arguments to their peers, and provide feedback on how logical their arguments are. 

5.Comprehension: identifying specific ideas in academic texts and lectures

In the context of further education, it’s not just enough to say what you think the idea of a text is – students need to be able to provide evidence from the text itself. During class reading activities, have students get into the habit of underlining or highlighting parts of the text that they think support their answers, and discuss them during the feedback session after the activity. Encourage them to not highlight large parts of text, but instead, give them a word limit. By reducing the amount of underlined words, learners need to read the content carefully to really identify the key words and phrases.

III. Ability :-He quality or student of being able the ability of the soil to hold water especially : physical, mental, or legal power to do something a writer's ability to engage the reader's interest did the work to the best of her ability [=as well as she could] b : competence in doing something : skill artistic abilities.

IV.Perceptiveness :-If someone calls you perceptive, they mean you are good at understanding things or figuring things out. Perceptive people are insightful, intelligent, and able to see what others cannot. Perceive means "to see"; so, perceptive is a word to describe someone who is good at seeing.

V.Self-discipline :-the self is an individual person as the object of its own reflective consciousness. ... The sense of having a self—or self-hood—should, however, not be confused with subjectivity itself. Ostensibly, this sense is directed outward from the subject to refer inward, back to its "self" (or itself).