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    York House School
    4176 Alexandra St.
    Vancouver, BC V6J 2V6
    Tel: (604) 947-0015
    1-800-668-6288

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Dates & Times

An Introduction to the AIM

Saturday, May 12, 2012

9:00 a.m .to 3:00 p.m.


Advancing your Skills
with the AIM

Sunday, May 13, 2012

9:00 a.m .to 3:00 p.m.

Workshop Cost

Includes continental breakfast and lunch

 

1-day workshop rate: $250.00

 

2-day workshop rate:$385.00

 

 

Prices include all taxes.


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AIM Summer Institute participants can apply for 2 Seattle University credits!


Cancellation Policy: Up to one week before date of workshop: 90% REFUND.
No refund if cancellation less than seven days before workshop.

Contact the AIM Professional Development Department:

Jennifer Hall

Professional Development Director
Jennifer@aimlanguagelearning.com 1800-668-6288 ext. 107

 

Day one - An Introduction to the AIM

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 will learn how AIM gives students a working fluency in the target language in less than 100 instructional hours using these key techniques:

  • Gestures are used to convey meaning to ensure a target-language 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 English.

 

Workshop participants will have the opportunity to:

  • gain practical knowledge to understand how to implement the AIM
  • discover why learning a language through stories is effective
  • learn some of the songs, dances and gestures of the first units of the program
  • watch students using the AIM
  • learn how students acquire French and Spanish language writing skills through the AIM
  • understand the research that supports the AIM approach

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Day Two - Advancing Your Skills with the AIM

This all-day workshop is designed for teachers who already have some AIM experience in the classroom, and/or have attended the first day of an introductory workshop.

On day two of the workshop you will learn how to take AIM to the next level by covering the following topics:

  • story-retelling and story-extension activities;
  • teaching plural forms of verbs and double–verb constructions;
  • teaching different verb tenses;
  • assessing student work;
  • correcting student work using error analysis as a way to refine grammar knowledge in context;
  • learning grammar through raps.
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Program Creator

AIM's faculty is led by Wendy Maxwell (M.A.), award-winning teacher and AIM 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 recently completed AIM's first Spanish program ¡Jóvenes en acción!

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.

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Workshop Facilitators

Robert Slabodnik (M.I.T.) has been teaching high school French for 15 years in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. Robert has used the AIM program since 2005 and has been a conference and workshop presenter for AIM in the Pacific Northwest. He has been recognized as a "Top Teacher of Puget Sound" by Seattle's KOMO TV, and recently taught English in France on a Fulbright Academic Exchange. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected him to be a "visiting scholar" for their 2008 seminar on French culture. Robert is also a current candidate for National Board Certification. He welcomes all interested teachers to come observe his students learn with the AIM.

Magali Forte graduated as a teacher in the South of France. Part French and part Spanish, Magali has always been passionate about languages. After getting her Bachelor in Spanish Literature and Civilizations and her Masters in English Literature, Linguistics and Civilization, she started teaching English as a Second Language in secondary schools in France. It was only natural that she switched to teaching French as a Second Language when she decided to come to Vancouver, BC. Now teaching French with the AIM at York House School, she is convinced that this is the best method to get her students to talk in a proficient way very quickly and is amazed, on a daily basis, at the progress they are making. It is a pleasure to share her love for the AIM and her teaching/learning experiences!