Level 1 - 2-Day Training - Let's get started with AIM - French Immersion (for teachers of Grades K-2) with Ann Chiasson, author of our new Immersion Teacher's Guides in our Immersion Kits
Cost: Early bird price is $389.00 until May 15th, 2025 (Reg. $429.00) per teacher, or you can SAVE and bundle with our 1-Day AIM Specialty Sessions for $619.00.
Dates: Monday, August 18, 2025 and Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Times: 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PST / 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 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.
Note: B.C. Teachers may apply for a Bursary to cover the cost of the Workshop (2-day training plus Specialty sessions). Limited availability, so apply TODAY.
PLENARY 8:00 am-8:30 am PST / 11:00 am-11:30pm EST
Day 1
Classroom Routines and Oral Language development
In these sessions, we will focus on:
- developing oral language skills through the extensive use of the Gesture Approach
- learning gestures and how to use them to effectively helps students develop oral language skills
- simplifying the language so that you may engage exclusively in the Target language with students
- implementing effective AIM Routines for engagement and successful classroom management
- using Transition songs develop language skills and create a sense of security and predictability
Day 2
Centre Activities!
In these sessions, we will focus on:
- the continued development oral language skills
- how to model activities so that students may effectively engage in centre activities exclusively in French
- how to ensure that students engage in French only in all activities
- AIM activities that develop written language skills
- a variety of concrete activities that take the AIM philosophy into the teaching of social studies, math, science, art and language arts
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BUNDLE your 2-day training with our 70-minute Specialty Sessions on Friday!
The following are Friday's sessions:
1-Day AIM Specialty Sessions (Regular Price $250.00)
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 will overlap, you will receive recordings of the sessions to view at your leisure for 90 days!
Date: July 18, 2025
PLENARY 7:15 am-7:30 am PST / 10:15 am-10:30am EST
Workshop details:
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:
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Review what the CEFR represents and how it has impacted language instruction
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Show how AIM offers solutions so that teachers deliver a program aligned with the CEFR
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View videos the demonstrate how AIM Activities support the CEFR
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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:
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review the role that rhythm and rhyme play in AIM
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brainstorm rhyming words from the PDL
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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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Refund Policy:
Up to 2 weeks prior 90% refunded.
No refunds two weeks prior to Summer Institute.
