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 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.
*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
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.
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
