Making the Best of It: Creating Positive Outcomes from Negative Situations at School blog.gaijinpot.com

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 10 months ago

As an assistant language teacher (ALT) there are some situations where, no matter what you say (or do), it’s difficult to see anything other than a negative response from your peers. However, whether you ultimately end up recalling these events as negatives or as opportunities that you took to do something positive, largely depends on one’s own perspective.

With the right approach — and appropriate actions at appropriate times — we ALTs can (and do) make a positive difference. Here are some teachable moments for other ALTs based on a couple of my own less-than-positive experiences in the classroom.