What is the difference between students and scholars

Scholars persevere and never give up. Scholars refuse to be satisfied with contributing to the world in small ways. Instead, they are adventurous pioneers — They seek out mysteries, ask questions, and create something new. Students are wonderful beings. But Scholars are something special and unique because they serve humanity by making a difference.

Not only must teachers know the differences between students and Scholars, but their learners must as well. Cast aside outdated and woefully incomplete assumptions. It is time to believe in the power of all people and grant them equal opportunity to become a Scholar. If you enjoyed this essay, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to This I Believe, Inc. The work of This I Believe is made possible by individuals like you.

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Click here to learn more. They both can be used to define a person who attends a school or a college. A student can be described as a learner, who usually attains knowledge through teachers whereas a scholar is guided by other scholars of his or her field and also takes immense interest in conducting his studies and research independently.

Next we talked and shared ideas within our grade level teams at a staff meeting. Recognizing before something sticks you have to talk through it and put your thoughts out for others to hear and rephrase and add on to. Through these conversations we were able to brainstorm using thinking map structures to organize our thoughts and develop an understanding of the two terms, more of a working definition that we could share with students and families. Teacher driven, dependent, uncertain, learners, school member, learns from teacher, has general knowledge, follows, traditional, reads because they have to, novice, inside the box, and passively learns.

Peer driven, engaged, multi-faceted learner, collaborator, problem solver, self-motivated, passionate, independent, innovative, wants to learn, desires to share knowledge, prestigious, focused, reads to learn, inquisitive, actively learns, advanced, studious, directs instruction, outside the box, pursues knowledge, and asks questions.

Thinkers, attentive, disciplined, learners, have potential, creative, inspire, achieve, energetic, hard-working, fun, open and engaged. We will continue to add to and adjust our working definitions through the course of our work this year.

We are excited to invite parents and students to share their thoughts around our new thinking. It is exciting to walk through rooms or down the hallways and hear teachers refer to the kids in their class, the kids at our school as scholars, engaging in conversations around why we made the change and what it means. Hello, my name is Jen Robinson.

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