Teaching in Japan - Discipline in the Japanese classroom

A few of my subscribers have requested that I discuss discipline in the classroom.

Topics covered include:
**the intimidation factor
**male ALTS vs female ALTs
**befriending the disruptive student
**how discipline is not the ALTs responsibility
**the different way Japanese teachers approach discipline
**how to minimize and defuse disruptive situations

Thanks for watching and I invite your comments and questions.

-Jason

Category:

Education

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[utubenum11]

lol.. when my teacher gets mad at our class then we must stand up and stretch our hands out and put our school bags ontop. after some mins it's really hard to keep your arms stretched out. If you won't do it then you get 0/10 in behavior.. call that disciplining? and if u wanna know, im in the 7th grade.

[myargonauts]

@utubenum11 well, that's something you could never do as a teacher with JET, but maybe I should try that with my current college students :P

[JoSeFHdz]

Your vids are really helpful! thanks ^.^

[myargonauts]

@JoSeFHdz cool - glad you're enjoying them

[EddieLandsberg]

YES, your advice is 100% on the money... learn their names and and find ways of channeling attention seeking behavior.

Strategic grouping works well with disruptive kids... - Never put troublemakers in the back of the room or near other troublemakers... never put sleepers next to sleepers... don't put the bullies and sleepers in the back of the room... Some J-teachers are awful at grouping students so they put the good students up front and ignore the rest !

Your advice is wise.

[myargonauts]

@EddieLandsberg thanks!

[CRAKIZGOOD]

hehe

watch GREAT TEACHER ONIZUKA

best movie / anime ever xD

[0jrhindo]

zomg no mustache!

[myargonauts]

Good luck - I hope you do well. :)

[myargonauts]

seiza is sitting with your legs folded under you. It's certainly not that comfortable for me, but Japanese people generally have no problem with it. But it is seen as a formal way of sitting.

[YokosukaPatrick]

Seiza? I'm unfamiliar to that term. Is that supposed to be a hard stance to sit in that you get reprimanded for breaking the position? Perhaps like it was in the original Drunken Master?