INTR 431 Specifications
During INTR 431, you will build on the foundational elements of school interpreting learned in INTR 430, by examining the systems and structures under which school interpreters work. You will also build on your School Interpreting Website, by expanding on the end-product from INTR 430 with more artifacts and reflections within INTR 431.
The School Interpreting Website, as a comprehensive resource, was finalized in December 2022. This means the School Interpreting Website was not a component of Fall 2022's offering of INTR 430.
If you took INTR 430 during Fall 2022, you will create your School Interpreting Website in INTR 431. You will add pre-selected artifacts from the current course along with items from INTR 430 to your website throughout the SIS series. This ensures the comprehensive nature of the School Interpreting Website while spreading out the work that should have been done in INTR 430.
INTR 431 Sample Website
A sample School Interpreting Website (updated April 2024) has been created specifically for INTR 431. As a sample, the site shows structure and content requirements verse actual finished content. This sample provides you with a vision what the School Interpreting Website could be. Specifications for your School Interpreting Website are provide. The design and finished content will be unique to your site.
INTR 431 Overview
This table provides an overview for the development of your School Interpreting Website in INTR 431. Use this table as a general checklist throughout INTR 431 to monitor your progressive development of your School Interpreting Website.
Note: The table list webpages in their order of appearance for the School Interpreting Website.
Webpage
(Click the page for detailed instructions)
Overview Specifications
(Lists high level page task / content)
Submission
(List course activity when page is due)
- Create page / add content for
- Classroom Teachers
- Students & Families
- School System
- Checkpoint 4
- Create page / add content for IEP & Interpreter's Contribution
- Final Submission
- Create page / add content
- Initial EIPA Feedback
- Best Interpretations
- Checkpoint 5
INTR 431 Visitors
During INTR 431, visitors to your School Interpreting Website will be the course instructors, OSEP peers, and the PSI Project's administrators or designees.
As a post-graduation comprehensive resource, future visitors to your site will be members of the educational team, school administrators, and family members. Consider your long-term audience of this School Interpreting Website when composing and reflecting on content that showcases your employability and professional school interpreting brand.
INTR 431 Specification Rubrics
The School Interpreting Website is reviewed using a two-level rubric to determine complete / incomplete status. The two-level rubric determines if the specifications are present in your School Interpreting Website. This approach simplifies and standardizes the review process, freeing up the instructor to provide feedback on the website’s original and reflective content verse justifying where particle credit was earned. The School Interpreting Website is designed to capture your incremental possession of school interpreting and to be a showcase resource. This means either you have the learning and awareness (possession) or not and the packaging is either favorable (showcase) or not. As such...
COMPLETE indicates a satisfactory website that is a showcase resource of learning
and awareness. 
Awarded when all specifications are marked as COMPLETE.
INCOMPLETE indicates a developing website that is an obscure resource of learning
and awareness. 
Awarded when any specifications is marked as INCOMPLETE.
Specification Rubrics
Pages of the School Interpreting Website have consistent specifications - organization, navigation, headings, page introductions, SIS Competencies, original and reflective content, references, and comments. It is these consistent specifications that make up the two-level rubric used in checkpoints and the final submission. The rubric for the final submission adds three global specifications - the website's 1) showcase and growth, 2) reflection, and 3) professional brand and employability.
A non-page specific version of the two-level rubric is in Canvas for checkpoints and the final submission. The page specific versions of the two-level rubric are available in the buttons below.
Use the detailed specifications provided for each webpage to create your School Interpreting Website. Use the page-specific two-level rubric as a Do-Confirm Checklist for checkpoints and final submission.
A Do-Confirm Checklist (Gawande, 2010) is pausing after the work has been done (the do) to verify that everything that was suppose to be completed is in fact done (the confirm).
Reference
Gawande, A. (2010). The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Picador: New York, NY.
