Goals
Background 1:
There are several options you have for CATEGORIZING
your plan.
To keep it simple, you may want to consider two categories
- educational and professional. (Gary Sanderson suggests three - Individual,
Educational, and Professional - I'm not clear on the individual - but
it does make for a cute acronym!)
-ACET/CMP break the continuing education units into two categories - Professional
and General.
You may choose whatever categories you would like - whatever makes sense to you!
The first question you need to ask yourself is "What do I need/ want to work on?"
Here are some examples of different ideas:
Educational
- Current trends in educational interpreting
- Deaf Community and Mainstreaming
- Degrees
- Changes in interpreting that affects educational interpreters
- What is happening in related fields
Learning another language (this could also be considered professional)
Professional
- Becoming a mentor
- Certification/ credentials (QA, RID, NAD)
- Publishing (This may include publishing an article in the RID newsletter, The Views.)
- Presenting at conferences
- Attending local, state, regional and national conferences
- Joining and becoming active in national organizations and Special Interest Groups
- Branching out into a new area - oral interpreting, cued speech, interpreting, transliterating (whatever is a stretch for you.)
- Start a professional journal (to document vocabulary, chart progress, ideas for other goals, identify things to check on during prep time, notes regarding what you need to prepare for upcoming assignments.)