With the start of the 2023 school year right around the corner, it's a good time for veterans to refresh their knowledge and skills and for newly recruited ALTs to learn about their new roles. To support you in your school experience, ALTTO offers course modules that provide insight into the…
ALTs are a diverse lot, not all coming from majority English-speaking countries and many cultures. When it comes to teaching about culture, you can draw on knowledge of your own, cultures you’ve encountered through travel, or stretch your own understanding of the English-speaking world. Engaging and Informing A simple and time-efficient…
Happy New Year 2023! Have you made new year's resolutions? This is the perfect time to look at Commandment 9 - strategies to increase your learner's goal-orientation. Teachers Setting Goals Every year, teachers pore over guidelines, revise syllabi, and schedule units and tests as part of course goal setting. A syllabus…
Hi everyone, yesterday we successfully presented our new ALTTO website during a Zoom event hosted by Nagano JALT. It turned out to be a very important chance for us to hear more from our users and other prominent language educators working in Japan. We will keep working on improving this platform…
by Annette LeeBio: Annette Lee is a veteran ALT who currently works in the Osaka area. She earned a BA in Sociology and Linguistics in 2002 at the University of Washington in Seattle before coming to Japan for the first time after graduating to work as an intern for Sohatsu Systems, an…
by Huy TranEducational Technology ColumnistBio: Huy Tran is a Global Education Designer who trains ALTs, JTEs, and teaches ESL learners how to harness the powerful tools of the 21st Century. He received his Bachelors of Science in Education from the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. He…
Awareness of the course is growing (brewing) and soon the course (storm) will be available.......There are three main types of ALT in Japanese public schools: direct hire (through municipal, city and prefectural offices), private company (of which there are many) and JET. Some of these groups offer training, and some don’t.…