It got me thinking that I had probably acquired some of the body language of the German classroom. Of course, in the German classroom students get a lot of negative response. They are pretty used to it. To them I imagine I am the soft, friendly American, but for the American students, I had obviously acquired just a bit too much of that critical response. And my students at the Polytechnic get really confused at first because I tend to sit on desks and do other things that dont fit their image of what teachers are all about.
Japan has that thing about sitting on desks, too.
Yes, yes, yes. It means that at first we are not taken seriously. Im convinced that part of our value lies in accustoming our students to other behavioral norms. The students who return from a semester or a year at a university in the U.S. or G.B. are almost never satisfied again with the teaching of their own professors here. Please cite TESL-EJ appropriately.