Bonsoir
D’après mon expérience avec mes enfants et ainsi qu’avec les enfants dans les écoles et les garderies j’avais toujours exprimé mes mots avec quelques gestes en parlant alors en découvrant votre programme AIM m’a beaucoup aidé à enseigner les étudiants anglophones à comprendre le français en s’amusant .
Ma classe de 4 années cette année c’est leurs premiers fois d’apprendre le Français et en un mois ils reflètent des bonnes résultats et adorent la classe et je trouve du plaisir a leurs enseigner et en s’amusent tellement.
Merci Wendy.
Hakima.
I use the Portal a lot, especially in class. I keep referring back to it in order to engage my students. The visuals are great and the videos are engaging. It's a great support.
Store owner replied:
Thank you, Linda! I am so glad that you enjoyed the workshop and I look forward to hearing how it goes this year!
I enjoyed attending the free webinar about AIM with Wendy Maxwell last week. I attended a training in Toronto 13 years ago and I am interested in being trained again in the AIM methods. I believe AIM is a great way to help students learn Spanish quickly and enthusiastically. -- Thanks for your time, Wendy!
Looking forward to finding out more how I can use AIM at my school.
I like having all resources in one place and not having to pull out a CD to find things. I do wonder if there could a search function for the gestures in each kit portal, similar to how there is a search function in the online gesture database. It would be very helpful to be able to search through the gestures of just one kit and have it included in the kit portal instead of having to buy the kit portal AND the online gesture database. It's a lot of personal money to put up front each year for school.
Store owner replied:
We are so happy that your students love Louis la grenouille, Mary Kay!
Somehow this play remains the gold standard for an introduction to a language. I've been using it for over twenty years and have never found anything else that works so well. Love it.
Wendy & other AIM teachers reviewed the core values of AIM & demonstrated how to walk students through all of the key components of the AIM methodology. After not using AIM curriculum specifically the last 4 years but being a dedicated AIM style teacher, I realized I had successfully implemented many of the AIM procedures & principles in my classes anyhow. This course reminded me how simple & clear the AIM system is & why it supports student learning so well.
Store owner replied:
Thank you Christiana, we are thrilled that you found the training beneficial and that it also confirmed all the aspects of AIM that you are currently implementing well!
For somewhat older students this is a nice story to start with. They can practise with the portal and as a teacher you can see how long the've practised.
It's easy to see if the students did their homework; giving feedback is easy and it's a real bonus for dyslectic students that the text can be listened to.
I learned so much and enjoyed learning from other teachers who are implementing the AIM methodology. It's nice to get some new ideas I can take into the classroom with me in the fall!
Store owner replied:
I am happy to say that we have renewed our books. Our new editions have all the great aspects of the methodology as contained in the original Kits, but also contain wonderful improvements, based on teacher feedback over the years!
AIM continues to be responsive and fast in all their work.
I participated in the La Vie en Action! session about Movie Talks with Richard Smith. WOW! What an informative workshop! Richard explained the purpose and reasoning behind doing movie talks with our French classes, and then demonstrated with step by step instructions how we could successfully implement this activity. He very graciously shared us many ready to use resources. Merci!!!!
Wendy shared with us many ways that we could challenge and extend various vocabulary activities that are already in the different kits. The workshop was very thorough, engaging, and provided many concrete examples that could be used right away in our classes. Merci beaucoup!
Store owner replied:
We are so happy, Kirsten, that you are finding success with AIM!
It cleverly imagines the Big Bad Wolf as a soft-hearted character who just wants to escape from his past and become a successful comedian. Like everyone, he is looking for friendship and acceptance. His “Big Bad” reputation has been forced on him by a society that expects nothing good from a wolf. The book sweetly explores feelings of insecurity and loneliness and pushes us to re-examine our preconceived opinions about others based on their outward appearances.
Store owner replied:
We are so glad that you find that this is a great Kit for that age group!!
It was great to brush up and learn even more new strategies and techniques to further my teaching skills. AIM is a big help in the classroom and really gets the students speaking in French and using the language. They love it!
