Full course description
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.