Activities for Resilience and Reflection

ASL Version of Description

In supporting participants in the GTC cohort, the CATIE Center created weekly activities which included those focused on building novice interpreters’ ability to maintain composure during interpreting as well as to be more reflective in their practice.  This module is a collection of those activities that can be incorporated into other learning experiences.  

This […]

2022-01-19T14:19:22-06:00December 14th, 2021|

Month-Long Plan on Fingerspelled Word Recognition, Classifiers and Composure

ASL Version of Description

This resource is a series of activities designed to demonstrate how a novice interpreter can create an individual development plan with the principle of mixed practice, a strategy shown by cognitive science research to be a strategy for successful learning.  These activities focus on three skills that are common growth areas for novice interpreters:

2022-01-19T14:25:08-06:00December 14th, 2021|

Self-Care: Self-Empowerment

Jessalyn explains a process for self-empowerment as a way for self-care.

A translation is available below in English. It is designed as a resource for working with the text in ASL. It is not intended to represent a definitive way to translate the text.

Visual Description

A white woman with blonde hair pulled back wears a black shirt and sits in front of a grey screen. […]

2022-01-19T19:39:40-06:00March 24th, 2020|

Self-Care: Grounding

Jessalyn explains a process for grounding as a way for self-care.

A translation is available below in English. It is designed as a resource for working with the text in ASL. It is not intended to represent a definitive way to translate the text.

Visual Description

A white woman with blonde hair pulled back wears a black shirt and sits in front of a grey screen. […]

2022-01-19T19:40:18-06:00March 24th, 2020|

Self-Care: Guided Visualization and Meditation

Jessalyn explains a process for using breathing as a way for self-care.

A translation is available below in English. It is designed as a resource for working with the text in ASL. It is not intended to represent a definitive way to translate the text.

Visual Description

A white woman with blonde hair pulled back wears a black shirt and sits in front of a grey […]

2022-01-19T19:40:59-06:00March 24th, 2020|

Self-Care: Breathing Exercises

Jessalyn explains a process for using breathing as a way for self-care.

A Translation is available below in English. It is designed as a resource for working with the text in ASL. It is not intended to represent a definitive way to translate the text.

Visual Description

A white woman with blonde hair pulled back wears a black shirt and sits in front of a grey […]

2022-01-19T19:41:34-06:00March 24th, 2020|

Life Kit: Learn to Love Exercise

A pair of red roller skates on a grey wooden porch

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 help you get it together.

NPR’s family of podcasts for navigating your life — everything from your finances to diet and […]

2022-01-23T17:06:56-06:00March 25th, 2019|

Mini-Meditation from Headspace

A light orange rectangle with the words

Aim

To practice meditation as a tool for self-care

Time Required for Activity: 5 mins

Objective(s):

Interpreters will:

  1. Practice a 1 minute meditation
  2. Compare their pulse rates before and after the meditation

Step One: Take Your Pulse

Be sure to be sitting down with both feet planted on […]

2022-01-23T17:17:14-06:00March 12th, 2019|

Simultaneous Interpreting: Bullet-Proof Backpacks (Part 3)

A woman with light brown skin and dark brown long hair wearing a grey suit coat stands in front of a light grey background and speaks. Developed by ASL Flurry 

Competencies Addressed:

  • message coherence
  • depiction in ASL
  • Use of Classifiers
    • semantic classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.2)
    • descriptive classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.3)
    • locative classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.4)
    • body and body part classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.5)
    • instrument […]
2022-01-23T19:57:43-06:00December 3rd, 2018|

Simultaneous Interpreting: Bullet-Proof Backpacks (Part 2)

Developed by ASL Flurry A woman with light brown skin and dark brown long hair wearing a grey suit coat stands in front of a light grey background and speaks.

Competencies Addressed:

  • message coherence
  • depiction in ASL
  • Use of Classifiers
    • semantic classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.2)
    • descriptive classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.3)
    • locative classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.4)
    • body and body part classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.5)
    • instrument […]
2022-02-14T16:35:38-06:00December 3rd, 2018|
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