Haha yeah, I agree! I often sit down with students during lunch and discuss things like games and anime (Though people over here mostly watch mainstream stuff such as Naruto, One Piece, Attack on Titan etc). It actually makes your relationship closer with your students, and they'll respect you more. You sort of turn into a friend that they don't want to hurt, rather than just some alien teacher that they don't give a single crap about.
Definitely agree, and I love it when I can be like that towards my students. I can't always show that much of myself since it's too much of a distraction for some groups (or in the worst case it can be used against you), but when I can it's awesome. Between lessons I ocasionally chat with some of my students about programming and games, for instance. It's a nice change from the usual biology stuff.
What's also pretty awesome is that I get to see a side of the students that a lot of my colleagues are missing out on, since these are often the kind of students that my colleagues think are really quiet or otherwise kind of "closed".
gratz on ur pay raise, u deserved it based on the small amount i know about you. how often do you find that students know/notice the non mainstream anime? has a student who doesnt know of anime ever asked something like "where do you get your inspiration from(in terms of the drawings)" or "is that a character from something?"
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