Activities & Products / 2008 / Monograph: Toward Effective Practices

Through the initiative’s efforts, much has been learned about our field’s current knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and beliefs surrounding “2012.” This information has been chronicled in a new publication entitled Toward Effective Practices: A National Dialogue on AA-BA Partnerships. A free online publication available at http://www.lulu.com (or hard copy at approximately $30), the 132 page document illuminates the needs, intentions, hopes, and concerns of interpreter educators as they internalize and address these increasing educational requirements.

Toward Effective Practices: A National Dialogue on AA-BA Partnerships captures the dialogues begun by interpreter education directors at both the B.A. and A.A. levels to ascertain how programs can and will creatively change, transform, and create new educational opportunities for their students within the framework of “2012.” Moreover, it provides a historical perspective of our field, identifies current practices in the art of AA-BA partnership, offers a common language and definitions for shared dialogue, and descriptions of current practices in program partnership. Lastly, it shares the “lessons learned” from the B.A. Directors Meeting of October 2006 and the A.A. Directors Summit of May 2007, and provides recommendations for future action.

This document is not an answer to “what will work best for my program.” It is not a textbook with a full description of all the possible models that hold merit for the field of interpreter education. That is tomorrow’s challenge. This document also is not a definitive reflection on what the field “thinks” about program partnership. However, it is the first comprehensive collection of thoughts by program directors addressing the issues or program transition and partnership.

AA-BA Partnership Workteam Conclusion

The AA-BA Partnership work team strongly encourages you to acquire this monograph.