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 interpretersโ€™ ability to maintain composure during interpreting as well as to be more reflective in their practice.ย  This module is a collection of those activities that can be incorporated into other learning experiences.ย ย 

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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.ย  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. [โ€ฆ]

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. [โ€ฆ]

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 [โ€ฆ]

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 [โ€ฆ]

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.ย  NPR describes the series this way:

Tools to help you get it together.

NPRโ€™s family of podcasts for navigating your life โ€” everything from your finances to diet and [โ€ฆ]

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:ย 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 [โ€ฆ]

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 Flurryย 

Competencies Addressed:

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

Simultaneous Interpreting: Bullet-Proof Backpacks (Part 2)

Developed by ASL Flurryย 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 classifiersย (Taylor, 2017: 4.3)
    • locative classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.4)
    • body and body part classifiersย (Taylor, 2017: 4.5)
    • instrument [โ€ฆ]
2022-02-14T16:35:38-06:00December 3rd, 2018|
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