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.

INTR 431 Sample Website

 A template is provided to guide the development of your School Interpreting Website.

As a template, the site shows structure and content requirements verse actual finished content. This template provides you with a vision what the School Interpreting Website could be. Specifications for your School Interpreting Website are provide within the template and in the pages below. 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.

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...

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. 

Reference

Gawande, A. (2010). The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Picador: New York, NY.