0) Orientation & Expectations (30–45 min)

• Who: Bilingual adults serving in healthcare, legal aid, social services, schools, humanitarian/public-service settings.
• What you will learn: modes, ethics, memory and note-taking, register, trauma-informed practice, children, technology, glossaries, role-play.
• Ground rules: first person, accuracy, neutrality, confidentiality, stop-the-line when meaning is at risk.
• Assessment plan: pre-check → drills → observed role-play with rubric → post-check.

1) Foundations: What Interpreting Is (and is not) (60 min)

Interpreting vs. translation; modes (consecutive, simultaneous, sight, whispered, relay) and domains (community, medical, legal, education, humanitarian, business, media, conference). Interpreting is real-time and bi-directional; translation is written with revision cycles.

2) Modes & Turn Management (75 min)

• Consecutive: chunking 5–20 seconds; triggers (names, numbers, dates, addresses, quantities, conditions).
• Simultaneous/Whispered: lag control, self-monitoring, decorum.
• Sight Translation: scan layout and numbers; when to decline (dense legal fine print without preparation).
• Relay: when an intermediate language is needed; risk management.
• Practice Lab: timed ladder 5s → 10s → 15s; feedback on omissions, register, and pronouns.

3) Professional Ethics & Standards (60 min)

• Accuracy and completeness; preserve register and tone.
• Neutrality; disclose conflicts; recuse if needed.
• Confidentiality with limited exceptions for imminent harm.
• Role boundaries: no side conversations; use first person; request clarifications openly.
• Ethics micro-scenarios (provider persuasion, post-session advice, relatives interpreting).

4) Memory & Note-Taking (75 min)

• Memory: visualization, chunking, EVS, echo-shadow warm-ups.
• Notes: minimalist symbols (→, ≈, ↑, ↓), relationships, timelines; write names, numbers, and dates in the TL script.
• Drills: numbers relay; symptom–duration–severity stacks; 90-second sight-note cycle.

5) Register, Terminology & Figures of Speech (60 min)

Match register; handle idioms, metaphors, and slang via functional equivalents; avoid literal calques; confirm acronyms and false friends.

6) Interpreting for Children (45–60 min)

Shorter segments; slower pace; maintain roles; non-verbal support belongs to the professional; preserve trust without “baby talk”.

7) Trauma-Informed & Humanitarian Practice (60 min)

Recognize stress responses; avoid probing; mirror affect appropriately; brief and debrief; self-care and boundaries.

8) Community Settings: Applied Modules (90–120 min)

Choose 2–4 per cohort: Healthcare, Legal Aid/Administrative, Education, Social Services. Each includes scenario briefs and an observation checklist.

9) Technology in Interpreting (30–45 min)

OPI/VRI etiquette; latency and turn signals; secure terminology tools; when not to use sight translation from a phone screen.

10) Glossaries & Standardization (45–60 min)

Build living, domain-specific lists; manage regional variants; create a starter glossary (10–20 items) per module.

11) Role-Play Practicum (90–120 min)

Triads: Provider (script), Client (profile card), Interpreter (observed with rubric). Three rounds (consecutive, sight snippet, optional whisper simultaneous) with immediate feedback.

12) Assessment & Completion (45–60 min)

Observed role-play graded on accuracy and completeness, ethics, turn management, register, and self-correction. Short sight translation. Post-check versus pre-check. Rubric scale: 4 = Professional; 3 = Functional; 2 = Emerging; 1 = Needs coaching.