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TPPT in the Real Classroom: Part 3 Planning Under Pressure

Alan Granada is an ALT in Kanagawa, teaching English across elementary, junior, and senior high schools. He helps students build communicative confidence by starting from what they can already do and using Adrian Leis’ Task 1-Present-Practice-Task 2 framework, or TPPT. See Part 1 and Part 2. Recently, a JTE asked me, shortly before class, if…

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13 August 2026

ALT / Elementary School / High School / junior high scool / professional development / teacher training / Uncategorised

TPPT in the Real Classroom: Part 2 Choosing the Right Expression

Alan Granada is an ALT in Kanagawa, teaching English across elementary, junior, and senior high schools. He helps students build communicative confidence by starting from what they can already do and using Adrian Leis’ Task 1-Present-Practice-Task 2 framework, or TPPT. For Part 1, click here. After teaching the first lesson, one question stayed with me.…

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10 August 2026

ALT / Elementary School / High School / junior high scool / professional development / teacher training

TPPT in the Real Classroom: Part 1 Building the Framework

Alan Granada is an ALT in Kanagawa, teaching English across elementary, junior, and senior high schools. He helps students build communicative confidence by starting from what they can already do and using Adrian Leis' Task 1-Present-Practice-Task 2 framework, or TPPT, to guide them through input noticing, flexible output supports, and interaction tasks that gradually increase…

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27 July 2026

Activities / ALT / teens

The Power of Questions: How ALTs Can Build Rapport, Teach Grammar, and Thrive in Japan

Happy spring! ALTTO hopes you are feeling refreshed and ready for a new school year in Japan. Nathaniel Reed, the founder of ALT Training Online, gives us valuable advice about asking our English learners the right questions. This is sneak peek of his new book, Fluency Through Conversation available on Amazon…

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26 March 2025

ALT / Special Education

5 Tips to Improve Your Special Education Lessons by David Logan Hayter

Bio: David Logan Hayter is a teacher and freelance writer based out of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He first gained experience in education by working as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Japan from 2014-2019. Although he primarily taught junior high school, he has taught all the grades from kindergarten through ninth…

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29 September 2020

CLIL / professional development / Team-Teaching

Implementing CLIL into Your Team-Taught Lessons by Nate Olson

Bio: Nate Olson, a former ALT and current researcher at Sophia University, is promoting team-taught CLIL (content and language integrated learning) for his Ph.D. project. He has created a team-taught CLIL training course video series which will be featured on ALTTO Courses. He invites you to participate in a pilot study where he will be…

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21 September 2020

Activities / EFL

Design Thinking in the ESL Classroom by Rishma Hansil

Bio: Rishma Hansil - Language Instructor and UX Designer Rishma has been living and working in Tokyo since 2017 as an Assistant Language Teacher and Tokyo Prefectural Advisor to the JET community. She holds an M.A in Future Media from Birmingham City University. She is the author of “Animal Adventure”, an…

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13 August 2020

Ed Tech

Introducing EFL.Digital: Digital Assignments for 21st Century English Teachers by Paul Raine

Bio: Paul Raine (MA TEFL/TESL, University of Birmingham 2012) is an award-winning teacher, presenter, author, and developer. His books include the best-selling 50 Ways to Teach with Technology and the innovative multi-path graded reader Journey to Mars. He has also developed his own website for teachers and learners of EFL (EFL.digital). He has published numerous research…

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13 June 2020