CENTER for OUTREACH SERVICES
Orienting Teachers about Interpreting
Often, when a deaf student is placed in a general education teacher's class, the teacher is unfamiliar with working with an interpreter, interacting with deaf people, and the specific needs of deaf learners. The following resources may help an interpreter as they educate classroom teachers and other school staff about interpreting issues.
Orientation Materials for Teachers
These one-page documents were created by ISLR for educational interpreters to share with teachers. These documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
Orienting Consumers to the Role and Function
of an Educational Interpreter
Independent Study Modules on CD-Rom
By Susan L. Basone
In collaboration with ISLR, Sue Basone developed an independent study module to help interpreters teach consumers how to work effectively with them. In this two CD-rom set, you will go through power point slides and watch video clips from a live workshop Sue presented on this topic. Sue shares both informal and formal means to explain your role to consumers, such as teachers and students, including role plays of dialogues with a teacher and principal. You will be guided to complete activities to develop a list of partnerships, prioritize a list of consumers, and develop strategies to teach consumers about an interpreter’s role. The CDs are easy to use. Simply pop them in your computer and the presentation launches automatically.
If you would like to purchase this module, send a check for $4.00 to the Center for Outreach Services to cover duplication and shipping. Please make checks payable to OSD.
Teaching the Teachers: A Resource for Developing In-Service Training
for Teachers who Work with Deaf Students
by Sara Paullin Casto
Many teachers who work with deaf students in general education classrooms find including a deaf student and interpreter challenging. Often, teachers have not had any training on working with deaf students. Interpreters can help teachers learn more about working with deaf students and interpreters by developing training, such as a workshop, a series of short presentations at meetings or a discussion for teachers and interpreters. Teaching the Teachers is a compilation of resources for providing training for educators about interpreters and deaf students. Many of the ideas were collected at a discussion of over seventy-five educational interpreters at the Summer Institute for Educational Interpreters in June, 2001.
Click here to view Teaching the Teachers. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this document.
Ohio Guidlines for Educational Interpreters
ODE Brochure on the Responsibilites of Teachers