Tips How To Develop a High Achiever

1. High Achievers are in demand everywhere. They are the backbone of every successful business, every successful entertainment program, and much more. A parent would be foolish not to want their child to be a recognized as a student who failed this standard.
2. What is a high achiever? The simple fact is, that there is no single definition, because it is governed by a child's personality profile.
3. My purpose here is not get technical in personalities, but to recognize that the extroverted, expressive personality is going to manifest High Achievement status a little differently to the child who is intensely analytical.
4. Your goal, therefore, is to uncover the strengths of each individual, and harness these in unique and powerful ways.
5. That is not as difficult as it might appear. Each student tends to display his strengths - and his weaknesses. So all you need to do is observe.
6. Does this child like to sit alone and read? Then give her more reading material. Recognize her reading skills, help her develop the ability to take information and use it in other fashions.
7. What about the child that hates paperwork, hates reading, and prefers to be socially interactive at all times? He cannot leave other people alone. He must always be talking, and to be truthful, he likes the attention he gets when he talks.
8. Put that child on a stage, in front of people, and he will be a High Achiever. Every bone in his body tells him if he is successful his desire for applause and recognition will be accomplished. So he outdoes himself time and time again in an effort to get the accolades of friends and peers.
9. While it is essential to recognize that all students can be high achievers, it now requires an education system that can allow that to happen. One of the real challenges of education is classroom teaching. It can be a hindrance to developing te students unique abilities.
10. Great teachers who know the difference find ways to circumvent the "system" and provide a level of individual learning. This allows students to explore, to create, to respond; these are some of the underlying traits of high achievers.

By Ian Hodge