Yesterday I lost my temper with a group of talkative students and stormed out of the class towards the end of the lesson while the rest of the class was still quietly listening and cooperative.

On reflection I realised that that had not been the right thing to do. I thought that I could have handled it better by keeping my patience and continuing to teach those who wanted to learn, while speaking to the rest privately outside of class time. Besides, storming out of the class would not affect those who had created the trouble, while those who wanted to learn would be hurt & upset that they were not given the chance to.

I realised that a lack of understanding existed on both sides.

On one hand, I didn't understand why students could behave like that. On the other hand, the students were probably wondering why the teacher lost her temper over a little thing.

I tried to put myself into the shoes of the students this morning during CD lesson. We tried putting ourselves into each others' shoes (Anyway, this wasn't the particular class that had made me angry). I don't know if it worked, because a few people were still not taking the exercise seriously. However, most of the class was in a reflective mood, I think.

I wonder what else there remains to do.