Our guest blogger this week, Kem Opperman-Torres, teaches Spanish and Study Skills at St. Martin’s Episcopal Middle School in Metairie, Louisiana. She is entering her seventh year at St. Martin’s where her two boys also attend school. You can follow Kem on Twitter @SraTorres and participate in a monthly #AIMchat with other AIM teachers from…
After having taught in an early immersion program for the first few years of my teaching career, I decided to move to a school to teach core French or FSL with 30 minute classes of French per day. After moving from immersion to core I found a significant difference between the language skills that students…
AIM is a systematic approach that effectively scaffolds language development and supports all learners through its multimodal techniques and strategies. In fact, it has proven to help teachers with limited language proficiency as well! Teachers have discovered the great benefits of this system to support their ability to simultaneously learn as they teach the language.…