AIM French - Level 2 - Professional Development Workshop Series (Asynchronous + Live Q&A)
AIM French - Level 2 - Professional Development Workshop Series (Asynchronous + Live Q&A)

AIM French - Level 2 - Professional Development Workshop Series (Asynchronous + Live Q&A)

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Learn at your own pace and on your own schedule!

Receive all the benefits of AIM's Levelled Training Workshops any day of the year.

*NEW AIM Workshop Series, which blends 8 Recorded Training Sessions, with one Live-Online Q&A Session with Wendy Maxwell!

Each registrant will receive a 3-month code to access 8 (approximately one-hour long) training sessions, plus you can register for a 60-minute live online Q&A session with Wendy Maxwell, which will take place within 2 months of your access to the workshops. 

Level 2 - 2-Day Training - Refresh, Reinforce and Consolidate 
For Core/FSL (Grades K-12), French Immersion (Grades 3-8) with Wendy Maxwell, Creator of the AIM

Are you ready to improve your AIM teaching practice? A refresher is just what you need! This course will reinforce the AIM approach and will help you increase student engagement.

This workshop is designed to provide extensive hands-on experience with a few aspects of AIM that teachers often need to review and reinforce. It is a preparatory workshop for success with Level 3 'Up your Game with AIM' workshop, which we are modifying to meet the needs of more experienced AIM teachers.

Pre-requisite:
In order to benefit from this workshop your should:
  • know all of the gestures from a Step One kit.
  • have actively used AIM in the past two years.
  • have implemented a Step One kit in full. You know how to model all the basic language manipulation activities up to and including Partial Questions.
Day 1:
Developing further oral language skills

In these sessions you will:
  • improve your understanding of and practice with the basic Gesture Approach techniques
  • receive extensive hands-on practice with TLSE/Spontaneous gesturing, to improve your proficiency with the ongoing gesturing with your class
  • learn how to maximize language use through basic oral questions and other activities
  • learn simple, effective vocabulary-building oral activities/games

Day 2:
Moving forward with written proficiency

In these sessions you will:
  • review some basic written modelling techniques as well as ones that push students further in their ability to maximize language use and begin to edit their own work
  • review and extend your knowledge of AIM classroom systems and routines that develop language proficiency and engagement during written partner/group activities
  • develop your skills in implementing one of AIM's most important creative Activities: Story Retelling
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We solve many of the challenges language teachers face.

Learn about some of the challenges Primary School Teachers face when teaching languages.

The Gesture Approach

The AIM is a methodology that supports students by providing strategies and techniques that ensure student language acquisition and a high level of engagement. The Gesture Approach allows students to visualize, hear, say and 'feel' the language simultaneously, and this results in rapid proficiency development.

A Literacy- and Arts-Based Approach

Through the use of story and drama, songs, raps, and dances, students are moving to the language as they create meaning. Scaffolding and cooperative learning strategies help all students - the shy, weak, and strong - to find great support and success.

High-Frequency Vocabulary

One of the most essential aspects of AIM that ensures student success is the high-frequency vocabulary (Pared-Down Language) that threads throughout every aspect of this methodology. AIM is designed such that each word is repeated extensively, allowing students to develop a strong foundation for language proficiency.

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