Learning Opportunities

AIM-ing for proficiency – you CAN DO it!

Presented By

Wendy Maxwell

Series Sessions

Date Time
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Location

In Person Medicine Hat 76 Central Office 601 1 Ave SW, Medicine Hat, AB

AIM is a literacy approach that uses effective strategies and techniques to accelerate language acquisition. Through its multimodal design, AIM is a program that provides support for all learners with varying learning styles, intelligences and strengths. Embedded in the design of the program are many principles of Universal Design for Learning and AIM has proven to be successful at ensuring that inclusion is possible in a second language classroom.

In this interactive workshop you will have the opportunity to learn about and try some of the innovative techniques used in the AIM. Attend this session to have all your questions about this revolutionary second-language approach answered.

In the first day of this 2-day workshop, you will learn:

  • How to get your students speaking French and how to establish a French-only classroom environment from the very first day of classes
  • How to maximize use of gestures and have students talking with you at all times!
  • How to get language production even from shy and behaviourally-challenged students
  • To scaffold activities to ensure maximum student confidence and success
  • To use music and choreography as part of the AIM

In the second day of this 2-day workshop, you will learn:

  • Basic language manipulation activities
  • How to do story retelling and story extension activities
  • How to correct work with an emphasis on error analysis as a way to refine grammar knowledge in context
  • The contents of the new AIM Immersion Kit for K/1 classes!

We will be sure to leave time in part two for plenty of discussion as well among teachers who are already using AIM!

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