Unleash the Power of the AIM!
For Beginner and Experienced AIM French Teachers
Date:
Thursday, August 15th, 2019 - Friday, August 16th, 2019 in Edmonton, AB.
At: The Languages Center at Woodcroft
13750 Woodcroft Ave., Edmonton AB
Time:
9:00am - 3:00pm each day
Meals:
Breakfast and lunch are included in the workshop price.
Continental Breakfast @ 8:30am
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This interactive and practical workshop will give you the opportunity to discover and try some of the AIM’s innovative techniques. Learn the unique tools and strategies used in an AIM classroom.
Facilitators: Wendy Maxwell for Beginner & Rhonda Murphy for Experienced
A wealth of topics will be covered for both new and experienced AIM teachers.
AIM is a balanced literacy approach that uses effective strategies and techniques to accelerate language acquisition. Through its multimodal design, AIM is a program that provides support for all learners with varying learning styles, intelligences and strengths. Embedded in the design of the program are many principles of Universal Design for Learning and AIM has proven to be successful at ensuring that inclusion is possible in a second language classroom.
Teachers new to AIM will learn:
- gestures from Wendy Maxwell’s 'Gesture Approach'
- how to get your students speaking French and how to establish (painlessly!) a French-only classroom environment from the very first day of classes
- to scaffold activities to ensure maximum student confidence and success
- to use music and choreography as part of the AIM
- how to work with AIM plays at the beginning levels
- how to model basic language manipulation activities
- how to maximize use of gestures and have students talking with you at all times!
- how to introduce story retelling
- how to get language production from shy and behaviourally-challenged students
- how to correct work with an emphasis on error analysis as a way to refine grammar knowledge in context
- how the AIM ensures that proficiency develops so that students can engage in authentic tasks right from the beginning
Experienced AIM teachers will:
- work in groups to discover what they know and what they still need to learn about AIM
- review and articulate the key strategies for success with AIM
- get hands-on practice with new, more advanced and challenging AIM activities
- work in groups to analyse teacher classroom videos and critique the implementation of the methodology, while reflecting on their own practice
- learn to improve questioning techniques with AIM
- learn to be successful with spontaneous gesturing - AIM-ifying anything we wish!
- learn additional techniques to ensure a target-language only classroom
- further their understanding of AIM's three-step inductive approach to grammar
- receive in-depth practice with AIM's most important activity creative storytelling - retelling and extension as well as book publishing!
*If you work for Edmonton Public School Board, please call the office to receive a special discount on your registration 1-800-668-6288
Hotel Information:
Edmonton Inn and Conference Center
11834 Kingsway Ave. NW. Edmonton AB T5G 3J5
Call: 888.747.4114
Discount Rates:
$109.00 for single rooms and $115.00 for double rooms. These rates do not include breakfast.
*Special Bundled Price
Make sure you have the resources you need to implement the AIM in your language classroom: bundle your training with an AIM Teaching Kit and SAVE 15%!
To order a bundle please call us at 1-800-668-6288 (North America) or 1-604-984-0015 (International).
For Bundled Price: Register by May 31, 2019.
Cancellation Policy:
Up to one week before date of workshop: 90% REFUND.
No Refund if cancellation less than seven days before workshop.
Note: We have availability in all workshops unless noted as "SOLD OUT".
