One Month Plan on Classifiers, Fingerspelled Word Recognition, and Composure
A Sample Professional Development Plan
Assessing Your Work for an Individual Development Plan
Aim
To assess your interpretation in order to provide more focused goals for your professional development plan.
Time Required for Activity: 15-30 mins
Objective(s):
Interpreters will:
- Review an interpretation.
- Identify what key skills are present and/or lacking
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Stimulated Recalls: Make Your Thinking Visible
Aim
To conduct a stimulated recall to identify what you were thinking during the interpretation process.
Time Required for Activity: 15-30 mins
Objective(s):
Interpreters will:
- Conduct a Think Aloud Protocol and record their thoughts.
- Review their thoughts and identify patterns.
You can use this activity […]
Think Aloud Protocols: Make Your Thinking Visible
Aim
To conduct a think aloud protocol to identify patterns in your thinking
Time Required for Activity: 15-30 mins
Objective(s):
Interpreters will:
- Conduct a Think Aloud Protocol and record their thoughts.
- Review their thoughts and identify patterns.
You can use this activity to address a […]
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Effective Learning and Practice Course
Effective Learning and Practice
The CATIE Center has created a course on Effective Learning and Practice that consists of
- Module 1: The Science of Successful Learning and
- Module 2: Effective […]
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Texts for Baseline Interpretations
The texts below are provided for you to create a baseline interpretations for Individual Development plans. You can use other texts for this process. These are simply designed to give you a starting point. At the end of the monthly plan, you will re-interpret the text and see what progress you have made in improving the features that are targeted by […]
Life Kit: Get Out of Debt
This post has a link for three episodes on exercise from Life Kit, a series by National Public Radio. NPR describes the series this way:
Tools to […]