IMET - Assessment & Pattern Identification Strategies

Having confidence in your skills as an interpreter, and feeling connected to your work, can positively impact your process, progress, and outcomes. Sadly, interpreters often dwell on the negative which may lead to feeling disconnected from their work and hinder the development of confidence and self-efficacy.

This 8-Lesson self-paced course has been designed to introduce the concepts of confidence and self-efficacy and provide a framework for assessing your interpreting work. The aim is to offer guided deliberate practice in the skills of assessment and pattern identification. The intended outcome is that you leave the course with increased confidence in the understanding of your work and increased feelings of self-efficacy in the skills of assessment and pattern identification.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the psychological skills of confidence and self-efficacy and identify ways they can boost feelings of confidence and self-efficacy in relation to their interpreting work.
• Identify common patterns in ASL-to-English and English-to-ASL interpreting work. 
• Apply knowledge of common interpreting patterns during guided discourse-focused assessment activities.
• Assess their level of confidence and self-efficacy in their ability to self-assess and identify patterns in their work.

This self-paced course is designed for independent learners who wish to explore the material at their own pace. There is no facilitator or instructor, and no feedback will be given on assignments. All course materials are provided, allowing participants to manage their own learning experience. Completion is flexible, enabling learners to progress according to their individual schedules and goals.

This course is structured into lessons that are designed to take 2-3 hours each to complete. The anticipated length of the course ranges from 16 to 24 hours. Participants will have up to 120 days to complete the course, otherwise they will automatically be removed and required to re-enroll.