Level 2 - 2-Day Training - Refresh, Reinforce and Consolidate
For Core/FSL (Grades K-12) 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.
Pre-requisite:
In order to register for this workshop and to participate fully in all the activities, you must confirm that you:
Cost: Earlybird price is $389.00 per teacher until April 30th (Reg. $429.00). You can also bundle with our 1-Day AIM Specialty Sessions for $679.00.
Dates: Monday, July 20, 2026 and Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Times: 8:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. PST / 11:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. EST
Note: B.C. Teachers may apply for a Bursary to cover the cost of the Workshop (2-day training plus Specialty sessions). You can confirm your eligibility by reviewing the Bursary criteria. Limited availability, so apply TODAY.
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PLENARY 8:00am-8:30am PST / 11:00am-11:30am EST
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
You will receive recordings of the sessions to view at your leisure for 90 days!
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 22, 2026
PLENARY 8:00 am-8:10 am PST / 11:00 am-11:10am EST
1. Classroom organization /management in a deskless classroom - 8:10am-9:10am PST / 11:10am-12:10pm EST -
with Richard Smith, Certified AIM teacher/facilitator
In this session, you will:
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gain insights into proven effective classroom management strategies that work with younger as well as older students
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learn strategies to build strong relationships with students
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learn how to set up and manage a deskless classroom to promote flexibility, movement, engagement, and student ownership
2. Engaging Activities That Build Students’ Descriptive Language - 9:20am-10:20am PST / 12:20am-1:20pm EST - with Wendy Maxwell, Creator of the AIM
In this session, you will:
- understand how AIM effectively builds students' vocabulary from one Kit to the next in a spiralling manner
- gain hands-on experience with AIM's most popular vocabulary-building activities
- view video samples of classes and individual students engaging in these activities!
3. Being Creative with Les mots qui vont ensemble and Les phrases bizarres! - 10:30am-11:30am PST / 1:30pm-2:30pm EST -
with
Isabelle Racine, AIM teacher
In this session, you will:
- Discover a fun, low-prep vocabulary activity—“Bizarre ou pas?”—that boosts student engagement through prediction, visualization, and critical thinking.
- Learn how to use short 4-minute videos to reinforce specific AIM vocabulary through word association and sentence analysis.
- Leave with ready-to-use ideas for integrating “Les mots qui vont ensemble” into your classroom, including an end-of-year project to showcase student learning to parents.
4. Vocabulary in Action: Oral Activities that Get Students Talking - 11:40am - 12:40pm PST / 2:40pm-3:40pm EST - with Wendy Maxwell, Creator of the AIM
In this session, you will:
- understand what AIM activities support students' ability to describe effectively, an important aspect of language proficiency
- receive hands-on experience with each activity, so that you understand how to effectively model each one
- view how even the early/basic activities are scaffolded so that as students progress with AIM, they become better at describing!
5. Teaching reading to Beginner French students with Les sons readers series - 12:50pm-1:50pm PST / 3:50pm-4:50pm EST - with Pauline Galea, AIM certified Teacher/Mentor, host of Parlez avec Pauline
In this session, you will:
- Experience Pauline’s new readers series ‘Les sons’ with a focus on the Science of Reading
- Provide hands-on practice to show how to effectively use AIM strategies such as des questions totales et partielles and
- Provide hands-on practice with activities such Qu’est-ce que tu vois dans l’image ? and Décris l’image to develop oral language skills in short, simple activities
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Refund Policy:
Up to 2 weeks prior 90% refunded.
No refunds two weeks prior to Summer Institute.
