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Category: Education
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A new video for the teaching of ethics & professional practice
My classmates and I in Western Oregon University’s Master of Arts in Interpreting Studies & Teaching created a scenario for the teaching of ethics and professional practice. In this scenario, (more…)
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INT640 Lesson plan: Honesty in academic writing
I wrote this lesson plan and delivered this lesson in response to discovering and investigating plagiarism in the Linguistics of ASL course in which I did a practicum (INT353). I had wanted to teach the lesson on vague language, but the course professor and I decided the students were not ready for the subject. This lesson was an opportunity to teach ethics and professional practice and turn a negative (plagiarism) into a positive (academic honesty). (more…)
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Teachers are particularly beset by the temptation to tell what they know.
Teachers … are particularly beset by the temptation to tell what they know. … Yet no amount of information, whether of theory or fact, in itself improves insight and judgment or increases ability to act wisely.
—Charles Gragg, “Because Wisdom Can’t be Told,” 1940. In Wiggins, Grant; McTighe, Jay. Understanding by Design (Expanded Second Edition). Alexandria, VA, USA: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2005. p 227. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/westernoregon/Doc?id=10081770&ppg=239
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Professional conferences and organizations are valuable!
In response to The Professional Interpreter’s post Are professional conferences and organizations valuable? I replied:
I think that, in general, professional conferences are great! I don’t go to them all the time—one a year on average—but I always make some valuable personal/professional connections, and I always learn more about how to be better at what I do. For example, at the Conference of Interpreter Trainers in 2010, I met Miako (Villanueva) Rankin. We happened to chat at a lunch table, and now she is one of my master’s thesis committee members. Another example: I attended a Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf regional conference in 1998 and learned some life-changing lessons about participant-presenter interactions that have stayed with me both as a participant and a presenter of workshops.
I also think it helps to find more than one reason to go to a conference. When I attended the 2006 CIT conference in San Diego, it was a chance to visit my parents and friends in the city I had moved away from two years before. When I attended other conferences, such as the National Association of Black Interpreters (NAOBI), I was there as a presenter but I reveled in the warm welcome I received even though I am not black and I loved the festive atmosphere and cross-cultural exchange.
A conference is what you make it. If you can network and make friends and/or academic/professional relationships, combine both learning and teaching, and enjoy the city you’re visiting, I think a conference can be a great boon to one’s career.
P.S. I didn’t put all these links in my comment on The Professional Interpreter; I added them here. 🙂
Daniel Greene 