VANCOUVER Live In-Person - Fall Institute 2024 - LEVEL 2 - Refresh, Reinforce and Consolidate - French
VANCOUVER Live In-Person - Fall Institute 2024 - LEVEL 2 - Refresh, Reinforce and Consolidate - French

VANCOUVER Live In-Person - Fall Institute 2024 - LEVEL 2 - Refresh, Reinforce and Consolidate - French

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Refresh Reinforce & Consolidate - 2-Day Training (Core/FSL)

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Level 2 - 2-Day Training - Refresh, Reinforce and Consolidate

For Core/FSL (Grades K-12) and French Immersion ( Grades K-6) Late Immersion/Extended French ( Grades 4-8) with Alexandra Simsilevich

Cost: $535.00 per teacher, or you can SAVE and bundle with our Hands-on Gesture Practice with Wendy! workshops for $750.00.

Dates: October 25 & 26, 2024 (Two seven-hour days of training/networking)
Times: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 
Location: West Point Grey Academy, Vancouver BC https://www.wpga.ca 
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We have GREAT news!! French Teachers in British Columbia may apply for the Bursary! Contact us for details.

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 drive deeper student engagement.

This is a NEW workshop for AIM teachers! It 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 meets the needs of more experienced AIM teachers.

Pre-requisite:
In order to register for this workshop and to participate fully in all the activities, you must confirm that you:

  • 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 Questions Partielles.

If you are not able to answer 'yes' to the above, we recommend that you register for a Level 1 Training.

    Don't miss out! There will be live demonstration classes with students given by AIM Creator, Wendy Maxwell.

    PLENARY 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

    WORKSHOPS 9:00 a.m.  to 3:00 p.m.

    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
    Would you like to receive University credits for AIM courses?
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    Refund Policy: 
    Up to one week before date of workshop: 90% REFUND.
    No Refund if cancellation less than seven days before workshop.

    Kit Content

    In response to teacher feedback, our new edition kits have many new features... more technology, alignment with the CEFR, fully-described lesson plans.

    The Whole-Class Activities Book and associated Blackline Masters or Student Book guide you and your students through implementing the core methodology. You are shown how to accelerate proficiency through a scaffolded, systematic approach so that students are able to engage in productive and interactive language activities.

    Whole-Class Activities Book (Teacher’s Guide)

    This book includes:

    • whole-class activities in five- to ten-minute segments,
    • classroom systems,
    • entry and leaving routines,
    • (Available in new edition kits only) 85-Lesson Overview that illustrates the intended flow of the activities in the Kit how to rotate through entry and leaving routines, how often to model each new activity, how to recycle vocabulary, when to introduce each partner/group activity and how long students typically spend in it and when to introduce the creative work with story - story retelling and extension,
    • assessment for learning blackline masters,
    • vocabulary lists,
    • game cards.
    Partner/Group Activities Book (Blackline Masters)

    Including the play, vocabulary list, language manipulation activities, simple and more complex questions based on the story, creative writing activities and words to the accompanying songs.

    • Student Workbooks are available as an additional purchase.
    • Student Digital Workbooks are available for 1:1 classrooms as an additional purchase.
    Big Book (In younger aged kits)

    For younger classes, shared reading with the Big Book is a very important AIM activity. You may also use the e-reader of this same book, projected from the Portal.

    Program Guide

    Overview of the Principles, strategies and techniques for successful implementation of the methodology with how it develops authentic proficiency through the levels stated in the CEFR.

    Posters and Image Cards
    • Image cards of words not gestured
    • Hard-copy song and rap posters with lyrics. These also appear as projectable posters on the Portal

    AIM Kit Portal (2-year subscription)
    Portal

    A two-year subscription comes with the purchase of the Kit

    The Portal contains aspects of the content found in the Guides (videos, songs, e-readers, listening activities). Student digital workbooks available for the Portal as an additional purchase.

    • The songs (with instrumental versions)
    • Fun classroom raps (with instrumental versions)
    • E-reader of the story with highlighted text and audio
    • Gestured vocabulary for this kit
    • Music videos 
    • The play gestured for this kit
    • The play performed by students in costume
    • An authentic first class with AIM
    • Additional Teacher Instructional Videos
    • Complimentary access for 32 students 
    Student Workbooks

    A Student Book saves a lot of photocopying time and ensures that all student work is kept neatly in one place.

    Available in both hard copy and digital format on the Portal for 1:1 classrooms.

    Supplementary Resources

    Once you have begun to use AIM, you might like to consider resources that will enhance your implementation of AIM:

    Hard copy and digital e-readers

    Dance videos

    Teacher Training

    Initial and ongoing teacher training is key to the successful implementation of AIM.

    We recommend that teachers come to training at least every one to two years, and new ideas are introduced to help teachers move forward with AIM. We have many options for you, both In-Person and Virtual!

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    We solve many of the challenges language teachers face.

    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, resulting 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 important 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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