JALT2025 - Tokyo

The Efficacy of Positive Interventions in a Japanese Context

Nov 2, 2025, 1:10 PM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Practice-oriented Workshop (30-minutes) Psychology and Language Learning Room 302

Speaker

Yoshi Joanna Grote (Kyoto Sangyo University)

Description

Teachers instinctively care about their students’ well-being as they understand that happy students learn better (Oishi et. al., 2009). Yet do we really understand what makes our students happy? In this presentation, I will share what I have learnt from three years of teaching a Positive Education elective in which students were assigned positive interventions based on Seligman’s (2009) PERMA+ model.

Summary

Teachers instinctively care about their students’ well-being as they understand that happy students learn better (Oishi et. al., 2009). Yet do we really understand what makes our students happy? In this presentation, I will share what I have learnt from three years of teaching a Positive Education elective in which students were assigned positive interventions based on Seligman’s (2009) PERMA+ model.