stereotypes of students in a typical classroom

I was reading an article on different types of personalities in a typical classroom and was shocked by how much of a cliche people can be. I say cliche because it doesn't really matter where you are and which school you're in, chances are you'll end up with the same typical kinds of classmates. And if you stop to think better, you may fit in one of the categories I'm about to mention.

Before I start though, I want to say that my real intentions with this is not to make fun of people or ridicule them - I think the beauty of us human beings is in the differences after all -. What I actually want to do is to introduce you to an array of personalities that will provide you with brand-new vocabulary. And as a reminder, the article that inspired me to write this can be found here: http://teaching.about.com/od/pd/a/Personality-Types-Of-Students-In-A-Typical-Classroom.htm

To start our list, I wanna talk about the kind of student that should never be missing in a classroom: class clown. It's very easy to understand what's their role in class: like any clown in the world, their main goal is to get laughs from their classmates and often their teachers. Some off these guys are actually very funny, but it's very often to find people that try to be funny all the time and all they get is to be referred to office often.

There's also the motivated kind of students that regardless of their learning abilities will surely try their hard to overcome any struggle by studying really hard. Those students can be called nerds very often and sometime can be bullied by their friends because they're always the teacher's pet. They're very eager to learn after all and teachers love that. Of course they don't have to be necessarily a bunch of suck-ups, but when they are, they can be very annoying and will certainly get away with anything.

If there is the motivated students, there should also be the unmotivated. That can be very frustrating for the teacher sometimes, because the unmotivated student may have great potential, but refuse to turn in the simplest assignment. The reason for that to happen may simply be laziness, but the source of that laziness may also come from personal reasons at home. Maybe they don't have the necessary parental support to be successful.

Natural leaders, as the name itself suggests, are the ones with very good social skills. They don't have to be necessarily the smartest kid in classroom, but their enthusiasm to start any project or maybe their charisma are responsible for making people look up to them.

Nerds, just like a motivated student, are very eager to learn and try their best to be always the number one student in class. But unlike an average motivated student, they have above average intelligence and therefore can easily pass every subject with ease. They are quirky sometimes and physically immature for their age, not to mention they are often very fixated on a specific interest, which makes them very easy target for bullies.

Quiet as a mouse - I guess in my first years of school I used to be extremely quiet. I was very selective with friends and would make it hard for the teacher to know how well I was learning - because I would never participate in class. This kind of students are withdrawn and it's very rare for them to get into any kind of trouble.