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 10 Recorded Training Sessions, with one Live-Online Q&A Session with Wendy Maxwell!
Each registrant will receive a 6-month code to access 10 (approximately one-hour long) training sessions, plus you will be able to 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.
*Once you complete your order, you will receive a download with a PDF that includes a special link to the Q&A session registration page.
Level 2 - 2-Day Training - Refresh, Reinforce and Consolidate Immersion/Francisation
for teachers of Kindergarten to Grade Two with Ann Chiasson, author of our new Immersion Teacher's Guides in our Immersion Kits
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.
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.
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
- 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
