Monday, September 17, 2007

Location: Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries,
Montgomery, Alabama

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.





How to Teach and Learn Through Case Presentation and Supervision

Robyn Dean



In his book, The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer says, "The growth of
any craft depends on shared practice and honest dialogue among the
people who do it." However, Palmer is concerned that the current
dialogue in the teaching profession is reduced to the technique of
teaching and fails to appreciate the human issues of the profession. He
suggests that in reducing the profession of teaching to mere technique,
we diminishes the human-ness of the teacher and "...people do not
willingly return to a conversation that diminishes them." What is
described here about the teaching profession is also true about
interpreting and yet, the growth of our craft depends on the ability of
professionals to share practice and to do so in an honest manner. Palmer
suggests that the teaching profession begin a new topic of conversation
and with ground rules. In this one-day presentation, participants who
already have a foundational understanding of the demand-control schema
and this practice profession approach will be taught how to engage in
case presentation and peer consultation within the field of mental
health interpreting. We will look to and rely most heavily on
supervisory comments that use validation as an approach to behavior
change and professional growth. To learn how to identify and structure
dialogue about the interpreting event using the dialogic work analysis.
Objects will include; to gain practice and experience in case
presenting, to understand the importance validation in supervision and
how to use it as a technique in encouraging behavioral change and to use
validation, MI, and other interaction dynamics to lead supervision and
to opportunities to foster skills and knowledge in the field of mental
health service settings.









Robyn Dean, MA, C.I./C.T., was appointed to the faculty of the
University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1999, in recognition of
her scholarship in the interpreting field and her leadership in the
education of interpreters, medical students, and other health care
professionals. She has been a professional interpreter for over
seventeen years, with particular service experience in healthcare and
mental health settings. Ms. Dean holds a BA in ASL Interpreting and an
MA in Theology. Ms. Dean's application of Demand-Control (D-C) Theory to
sign language interpreting, as described in the Journal of Deaf Studies
and Deaf Education (Winter, 2001), has been the topic of numerous
workshops, publications, and grant projects nationally and
internationally.



COST OF TRAINING:

Daily rate: $50







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