Interpreting Handbook - K–12 (PDF)
File Summary:
The Interpreting Practicum Handbook K-12 serves as a comprehensive guide for students, cooperating interpreters, and supervisors involved in the capstone advanced practicum at Kent State University. It outlines the policies, professional expectations, and assessment procedures necessary for student interpreters to gain full-time mentoring and work experience in K-12 educational settings.
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Interpreting Handbook - Community Setting (PDF)
File Summary:
This handbook serves as a comprehensive guide for the ASL/English Interpreting program with a concentration in Community Settings at Kent State University, outlining the requirements, policies, and roles for students participating in their community-setting advanced practicum.
Empowerment through Languages
The vast majority of our graduates get teaching jobs right after graduating from Kent State. American Sign Language particularly has seen unprecedented growth, and the demand for teachers is high. World language teachers empower their students by helping them to become better human beings as they gain awareness, appreciation and connection with world languages.
To the untrained eye, a map is simply a lattice of lines and labels, a static snapshot of where things sit. But for those who understand the “lay of the land,” geography is less about coordinates and more about the heartbeat of a community. It is the art of documenting where we belong, and recently, a group of aspiring educators in the Early Childhood Education program set out to prove that if you want to change the world, you must first learn how to chart it. Stepping into Kent State University’s Community Geography Lab in McGilvery Hall on the Kent Campus, two classes of ECED students f...