Becoming a Mentor / Steps For Becoming a Mentor
Northeastern University offers a Master Mentor Certificate Program. For more information, please visit www.asl.neu.edu/masters/interpreter_education/.
Some people think the responsibility of being a mentor is a scary prospect, or something that requires years of training and/or advanced degrees. Other people think of it as simply passing along sage advice they were given or critiquing another person’s interpreting performance. So, which is accurate? Is becoming a mentor too advanced for the average interpreter, or is it so easy anyone can do it well? According to the research collected in the NCIEC’s mentor and mentee surveys, the truth lies somewhere in between. In the Master Mentor program’s Curriculum Overview, mentoring is referred to as skill multiplication. It says, “Quite simply mentors are capacity builders and skill multipliers who know how to guide adult learners in a life long process of professional self-discovery. Interpreters paired with mentors learn to assess their own skills and to set clear targets for themselves. They can also apply techniques that have been modeled by their mentors to support skill enhancement in their colleagues.”
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