Ethical Principles / Standards of Practice
The interpreter faithfully renders the message from the source language into the target language.
What is Accuracy?
Good afternoon, my name is Sharina. I will be your Spanish–English interpreter today. Everything said will be interpreted and kept confidential. Please speak clearly and use short phrases.
What is Pre-session?
During an encounter, the interpreter shares their cell phone number with a school staff member to be contacted for future meetings.
What is Impartiality?
The interpreter reads a written text in one language and orally conveys its meaning into another language.
What is Sight translation?
This skill requires the interpreter to maintain eye contact, avoid distractions, and be aware of their body posture.
What is Active listening?
The interpreter does not share any information obtained during interpreting unless required by law or organizational policy.
What is Confidentiality?
The interpreter pauses a heated suspension hearing when participants begin talking over each other, and asks them to take turns to ensure accurate interpretation.
What is Flow of communication?
The interpreter continuously learns and reviews glossaries, reads regularly, and maintains appropriate interpreting skills.
What is Professional development?
RSI
What is Remote Simultaneous Interpretation?
The ability to read a text, process its meaning, and actively construct understanding while integrating it with prior knowledge.
What is Reading comprehension?
The interpreter remains objective and unbiased and does not express personal beliefs or give advice to the parties.
What is Impartiality?
The interpreter places themselves strategically so the staff member and the parent can face each other.
What is triadic positioning?
The interpreter respectfully conveys the student’s words as they are—including slang, profanity and tone—ensuring a complete interpretation, even if it feels uncomfortable at times.
What is Accuracy?
The interpreter listens and interprets at the same time the speaker is talking, delivering the message in real time from one language into another.
What is Simultaneous interpretation?
A system of symbols and shorthand used by interpreters to capture ideas quickly and aid memory.
What is Note‑taking?
At an event in a school location, the interpreter arrives dressed appropiately, and on time.
What is Professional Conduct?
Derived from the French, whisper interpreting.
What is Chuchotage?
The Tier 2 interpreter declines to interpret at a 504 meeting for a family they support as a FACE coordinator, recognizing that their advocacy role could compromise impartiality.
What is Professional conduct?
The interpreter listens to a speaker in one language and then conveys the message into another language after the speaker pauses or completes a statement.
What is Consecutive interpretation?
chorrera = tobogán
carro = vehículo = coche = auto
onibus= auto carro
bibi=mke
What is Linguistic variation?
Tier 2 interpreters from Morgan School registered for the American Translators Association Annual Conference.
What is Professional Development?
Set of skills and protocols used to control the pace, structure, and turn-taking of a conversation to ensure accuracy and completeness.
What is Session management?
The educational interpreter runs into a parent at the grocery store, and the parent casually asks how the meeting with their nephew went. The educational interpreter kindly reminds the parent that they cannot share information gained during an interpreting assignment.
What is Confidentiality?
This term describes “the capacity of each party in an encounter to be responsible for and in control of their own communication".
Communicative Autonomy
A mental room‑scanning used to boost short‑term memory by walking through imagined locations.
What is the Memory palace technique?