What Should I Expect? [INTERPRETER]

What is mentoring?

Mentoring is defined as a developmental partnership through which one person shares knowledge, skills, information, and perspective to foster the personal and professional growth of someone else. Over the course of your career, you have developed skills and gathered knowledge and information that will be invaluable to your mentee. Of course, you cannot teach them everything during your short time together, just as you did not learn everything you know in just a few months from one person.

As you move throughout this course you will learn more about what it means to be a sign language interpreting mentor. You will see L.A.M.P’s process for mentoring and learn how to conduct a mentoring session with a student. Primarily you will work with students while you are already on a paid assignment. You will know well in advance that the student will be with you, and the facility and Deaf client will have also been informed and will have agreed to have a mentor along.

You and your mentee will agree on goals that they would like to achieve across a six-month timeline.