AIM Virtual Winter Institute 2025 - Level 1 - Let's get started with AIM - French
AIM Virtual Winter Institute 2025 - Level 1 - Let's get started with AIM - French

AIM Virtual Winter Institute 2025 - Level 1 - Let's get started with AIM - French

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2-Day Training - Let's get started with AIM - French (Core/FSL and Immersion)

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Level 1 - 2-Day Training - Let's get started with AIM - French (Core/FSL-Grades K-12 & Immersion Grades 3-8) with Wendy Maxwell, Creator of the AIM
 
Cost: $429.00
You can SAVE and bundle with our 1-Day AIM Specialty Sessions for $569.00.

Dates: Saturday, February 22, 2025 and Saturday, March 1, 2025
Times: 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. PST / 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST

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Do you want to experience the excitement of seeing your students reading, writing, and speaking the target language? 

At AIM Language Learning, we’re on a mission to help increase student language acquisition through our unique classroom methodology. Our approach to language learning provides teaching resources, teacher development, and ongoing support for language teachers, from Kindergarten to grade 12. 

PLENARY 8:00 am-8:30 am PST / 11:00 am-11:30pm EST

Day 1

Develop oral language skills

In these sessions you will:
  • review the key principles, strategies and techniques of the methodology
  • show how to accelerate the development of language proficiency through the Gesture Approach
  • demonstrate how to use gestures spontaneously to create authentic interactions and proficiency
  • show how rhythm, rhyme and music may effectively increase engagement and the development of language skills
Day 2

Help students develop written proficiency

In these sessions you will:

  • effectively use the Partner/Group Activities Book
  • seamlessly segué from oral to written activities
  • model written activities so that students may effectively engage in partner/group activities exclusively in French
  • implement systems to help students monitor their exclusive use of the Target Language only

Bonus! You will receive recordings of the sessions to view at your leisure for 90 days!

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BUNDLE your 2-day training with our 70-minute Specialty Sessions on April 12th!

1-Day AIM Specialty Sessions (Regular Price $215.00)

Each session will be 70 minutes long. You will receive a link to each of the 5 live sessions, and can attend whichever ones you like. Since some of these sessions may overlap, you will receive recordings of the sessions to view at your leisure for 90 days!

Date: April 12, 2025

PLENARY 7:15 am-7:30 am PST / 10:15 am-10:30am EST

      1. Hands-on Basic Gesture Practice -7:30am-8:40am PST / 10:30am-11:40am EST with Wendy Maxwell, Creator of the AIM

      In this 70-minute interactive session, we will:

      • review important high-frequency gestures, practise teacher-led self-expression, and how to vary your gesture reviews,
      • demonstrate how to conduct an 'Opposites Review' and some targeted work with gestures relating to grammar.
      • Wendy will also take requests based on the needs/interests of the group!

      2. AIM and the CEFR - 8:50am-10:00am PST / 11:50am-1:00pm EST with Wendy Maxwell, Creator of the AIM

      In this 70-minute session we will:
      • Review what the CEFR represents and how it has impacted language instruction
      • Show how AIM offers solutions so that teachers deliver a program aligned with the CEFR
      • View videos the demonstrate how AIM Activities support the CEFR
      • Engage in a few AIM activities

      3a. Classroom Routines/Management Part 1 - 10:10am-11:20am PST / 1:10pm-2:20pm EST with Pauline Galea

      In this 70-minute session, we will focus on: 

      • reviewing the AIM strategies and techniques designed to support your classroom management
      • introducing new strategies developed that have worked effectively such as 'le prof du jour'
      • sharing with each other additional systems and strategies that have been effective

      3b. Classroom Routines/Management Part 2 - 11:30am-12:40pm PST / 2:30pm-3:40pm EST with Pauline Galea

      • Continuation of Classroom Routines/Management Part 1

      4. Higher Order Thinking and AIM - 11:30am - 12:40pm PST / 2:30pm-3:40pm EST with Beth Hill

      In this 70-minute session, we will

      • explore the importance of critical thinking in Second Language classes and delve into how easy it is to ensure that your students are thinking critically with AIM kits. 
      • define critical thinking and the 3 question types
      • work with partners to create critical questions related to the play you are working on
      • discuss criteria vs requirements
      • discuss critical challenges and how they fit in AIM plays
      • create and examine critical challenges 

      5. How to Write AIM Raps - 12:50pm-2:00pm PST / 3:50pm-5:00pm EST with Richard Smith, Certified AIM teacher/facilitator

      In this 70-minute session, we will:

      • review the role that rhythm and rhyme play in AIM
      • brainstorm rhyming words from the PDL
      • work hands-on through the process of creating a rap. You will take some with you at the end of the workshop that you may use with your students!

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      Up to 2 weeks prior 90% refunded.
      No refunds two weeks prior to Winter Institute.

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      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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