1-day AIM Specialty Sessions
Date: July
22, 2026![]()
Prerequisite: Teachers must have attended at minimum one Beginner AIM Training (live online or in-person) to attend these sessions.
Each session will be 60 minutes long. You will receive a link to each of the 5 live sessions and can attend whichever ones you like. You will receive recordings of the sessions to view at your leisure for 90 days!
Cost: $250.00 per teacher for all 5 courses
Virtual Summer Institute participants can bundle this product with any 2-Day Training Session for $639.00 (Reg. $679.00)
To do so, you must order your bundle at one of these links below:
Level 1 - 2 Day Training - Core French
Level 1 - 2 Day Training - French Immersion
Level 1 - 2 Day Training - Spanish
Level 2 - 2 Day Training - Core French
Level 2 - 2 Day Training - French Immersion
Level 2 - 2 Day Training - Spanish
PLENARY 8:00 am-8:10 am PST / 11:00 am-11:10am EST
1. Classroom organization /management in a deskless classroom - 8:10am-9:10am PST / 11:10am-12:10pm EST -
with Richard Smith, Certified AIM teacher/facilitator
In this session, you will:
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gain insights into proven effective classroom management strategies that work with younger as well as older students
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learn strategies to build strong relationships with students
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learn how to set up and manage a deskless classroom to promote flexibility, movement, engagement, and student ownership
2. Engaging Activities That Build Students’ Descriptive Language - 9:20am-10:20am PST / 12:20am-1:20pm EST - with Wendy Maxwell, Creator of the AIM
In this session, you will:
- understand how AIM effectively builds students' vocabulary from one Kit to the next in a spiralling manner
- gain hands-on experience with AIM's most popular vocabulary-building activities
- view video samples of classes and individual students engaging in these activities!
3. Being Creative with Les mots qui vont ensemble and Les phrases bizarres! - 10:30am-11:30am PST / 1:30pm-2:30pm EST -
with
Isabelle Racine, AIM teacher
In this session, you will:
- Discover a fun, low-prep vocabulary activity—“Bizarre ou pas?”—that boosts student engagement through prediction, visualization, and critical thinking.
- Learn how to use short 4-minute videos to reinforce specific AIM vocabulary through word association and sentence analysis.
- Leave with ready-to-use ideas for integrating “Les mots qui vont ensemble” into your classroom, including an end-of-year project to showcase student learning to parents.
4. Vocabulary in Action: Oral Activities that Get Students Talking - 11:40am - 12:40pm PST / 2:40pm-3:40pm EST - with Wendy Maxwell, Creator of the AIM
In this session, you will:
- understand what AIM activities support students' ability to describe effectively, an important aspect of language proficiency
- receive hands-on experience with each activity, so that you understand how to effectively model each one
- view how even the early/basic activities are scaffolded so that as students progress with AIM, they become better at describing!
5. Teaching reading to Beginner French students with Les sons readers series - 12:50pm-1:50pm PST / 3:50pm-4:50pm EST - with Pauline Galea, AIM certified Teacher/Mentor, host of Parlez avec Pauline
In this session, you will:
- Experience Pauline’s new readers series ‘Les sons’ with a focus on the Science of Reading
- Provide hands-on practice to show how to effectively use AIM strategies such as des questions totales et partielles and
- Provide hands-on practice with activities such Qu’est-ce que tu vois dans l’image ? and Décris l’image to develop oral language skills in short, simple activities
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Refund Policy:
Up to 2 weeks prior 90% refunded.
No refunds two weeks prior to Summer Institute.
