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    Workshop Details

    Trinity Episcopal School

    May 5, 2012
    9am- 3pm

    1315 Jackson Avenue
    New Orleans, LA

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Professional Development Department

Jennifer Hall

Professional Development Director

Jennifer@aimlanguagelearning.com 1800-668-6288 ext. 107

 

State adopted!

AIM materials for French have been accepted by the Louisiana State Textbook Adoption Committee and are now on the State's list of approved materials!




 

AIM Workshops:
Everything you need to know to implement the AIM program!

Attend one of our workshops and you'll be ready to create a successful AIM classroom. It's that simple.

Louisiana Workshops:

May 5, 2012
New Orleans, LA

NOTE: The April 28, 2012
session in Shreveport
has been relocated
to New Orleans



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Introduction to the AIM – FFL Workshop

Discover how the Accelerative Integrated Methodology (AIM) blends the best of language-acquisition theory and brain-based research with interactive, systematized and engaging classroom practice, creating astounding results. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how AIM gives students a working fluency in French in less than 100 instructional hours using these key techniques:

  • Gestures are used to convey meaning. No English is necessary in this French-only environment! Teachers do the gestures; students do the talking.
  • Useful, key words are taught first. Don't wait to teach high-frequency words because they are hard to conjugate!
  • Grammar raps are memorized to learn and use the rules. Finally grammar is both cool and fun!
  • Songs, dances and plays engage students in an exciting classroom environment!
  • Cooperative activities get students working with each other speaking and writing creatively in French.
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Program Creator

AIM's faculty is led by Wendy Maxwell (M.A.), Master Language Teacher and Program Creator. Her program has transformed second language instruction, both in Canada and internationally. Wendy is the author of AIM's French and English programs, including Histoires en action !, Jeunesse en action !, Stories in Action! and Life in Action! She has also written AIM's Spanish program ¡Jóvenes en acción!

wendy

Wendy is the recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching
Excellence (1999) and the H.H. Stern Award for Innovation in Second
Languages (2004). She has made many appearances on CBC, Radio-Canada,
Citytv and CTV. Her program has been written up in the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, the Toronto Star and various international journals. Wendy has been invited to deliver keynote addresses in Paris, Tokyo and The Hague.

Workshop Facilitator

Edite Sammons (B.Ed.) has taught French since 1980 in both the public and independent school systems. In 1999, Edite was the first teacher to pilot the AIM in her French classes at Havergal College in Toronto, Ontario. She was subsequently awarded the Havergal Chair for Teaching Innovation in 2001. An AIM expert teacher and facilitator, Edite has led hundreds of workshops around the world in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Recently retired from the Country Day School in Ontario, Canada, Edite is now able to spend more time sharing her knowledge of and passion for the AIM.