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Administrative Role and Responsibilities
Role and Responsibilities of the Administrator
Role: The administrator ensures that the teacher, educational interpreter, and student adhere to their individual roles and responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
Role: The administrator ensures that the teacher, educational interpreter, and student adhere to their individual roles and responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
- Develop a job description for the interpreter/transliterator.
- Provide supervision and periodic evaluation of technical competencies and overall job performance of the educational interpreter/transliterator.
- Provide the educational interpreter/transliterator a mailbox, access to e-mail, desk space in the classroom(s) for preparation purposes, and a location to preview classroom or professional development materials.
- Provide another qualified educational interpreter/transliterator for the student(s) who is deaf or hard of hearing for school conferences allowing the educational interpreter/transliterator to participate.
- Monitor and encourage professional development of the educational interpreter/transliterator.
- Explain school policies regarding dress code, chain of command, attendance requirements, and child abuse reporting procedures, etc.
- Know the Code of Professional Conduct for Interpreters.
- Seek technical assistance from support services.
- Provide interpreter/transliterator services for parents/guardians, students, staff, and other individuals, who are deaf, to participate in all school activities, including extracurricular activities and school related conferences, in accordance with state and federal laws.
- Notify the interpreters/transliterators of changes in the school schedule, substitute teachers, guest speakers, field trips, etc.
** Arkansas Standards for Educational Interpreters and Transliterators, Committee on Standards for Educational Interpreters, Arkansas Department of Education, Fourth Edition, 2016