AIM Virtual Winter Institute 2025 - Level 2 - Refresh, Reinforce and Consolidate - French

Level 2 - 2-Day Training - Refresh, Reinforce and Consolidate  For Core/FSL (Grades K-12) and Immersion (Grades 3-8) with Wendy Maxwell, Creator of the AIMAre 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: 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. HURRY! Registration closes on February 7, 2025, so REGISTER TODAY! Cost: $429.00 per teacher, or you can SAVE and bundle with our 1-Day AIM Specialty Sessions for $599.00.Dates: Sunday, February 23, 2025 and Sunday, March 2, 2025 Times: 8:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. PST / 11:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. EST Download PDF (coming soon) PLENARY: 7:45am-8:00am PST / 10:45am-11:00pm 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! Would you like to receive University credits for AIM courses? AIM is now approved! Click here for more information. BUNDLE your 2-day training with our 70-minute Specialty Sessions on April 12th! 1-Day AIM Specialty Sessions (Regular Price $215.00) 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 may overlap, you will receive recordings of the sessions to view at your leisure for 90 days! Date: April 12, 2025 PLENARY 7:15 am-7:30 am PST / 10:15 am-10:30am EST 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: Review what the CEFR represents and how it has impacted language instruction Show how AIM offers solutions so that teachers deliver a program aligned with the CEFR View videos the demonstrate how AIM Activities support the CEFR 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: review the role that rhythm and rhyme play in AIM brainstorm rhyming words from the PDL 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!   -- Refund Policy: Up to 2 weeks prior 90% refunded.No refunds two weeks prior to Winter Institute.