Structuring the Meetings [INTERPRETER]
You will meet with your mentor five times over the course of approximately six months. The first meeting has been detailed for you, and will include the following:
- Discuss the challenges, goals, dreams, and past experiences in sign language interpreting.
- Discuss past experiences mentoring and being mentored for both parties.
- Determine the number of interpreting jobs per week the mentee will attend.
- Determine when, if ever, the mentee will be allowed to interpret in an appointment (with the permission of the provider and the Deaf consumer as well).
- Discuss any limitations – in regards to time, physical locations, transportation, etc. – for either party.
- Review the mentee’s goals and determine how each goal will be measured to determine when it has been successfully met.
- Determine how the mentee will be held accountable for their work and what actions need to be taken before, during, and after each assignment.
- Establish boundaries for contact times and methods, travel to assignments, and actions during an assignment and complete boundaries worksheet.
- Discuss any additional concerns and answer any additional questions each person may have.
- Discuss and ensure the mentee has signed the confidentiality agreement.
- Complete and sign the Mentorship First Meeting worksheet.
- Create the agenda for the next meeting and select the assignments the mentee will shadow at between now and the next meeting.
