Fw: [Adta] Teaching a course on Presenting the Profession

[Heather Hill]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heather Hill" <heatherhill at hotkey.net.au>
To: "nava lotan" <nava_lotan at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Adta] Teaching a course on Presenting the Profession


> Nava - that sounds a great idea.  I'd like to suggest too that students 
> get a chance to role play this with fellow students.  At the training 
> institute I work at, we got students in groups of 3.  One was the 
> therapist and she decided the context - whom she was talking to, where 
> etc.  Student 2 was the psychiatrist, or teacher or...., and student 3 was 
> there to offer support (eg ideas when student 1 could not think of an 
> answer).  Although we didn't do it that time - we felt the above was 
> enough of a challenge at that point, but we had considered taking this 
> further by making the inquiring person more of a "devil's advocate", that 
> is being ultra critical and therefore really testing the student.
>
> I think that our students felt that in struggling to articulate what they 
> do within a "safe" context, it really helped them find their own words.
>
> Cheers!
> Heather
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "nava lotan" <nava_lotan at yahoo.com>
> To: <adta at adta.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 7:13 PM
> Subject: [Adta] Teaching a course on Presenting the Profession
>
>
> Dear Lora and all
> I would like to translate Lora's initial letter into Hebrew (anonymously) 
> and present this as a topic to a D/MT class towards the end of their 
> academic years and open this up for discussion.  Yael Barkai already 
> thought about this many years ago when she created a course in which each 
> student needs to present the D/MT profession to colleagues in her 
> practicum place. She named the course "presenting the D/MT profession".
> Why should we wait with  such crucial topics to surface after graduation? 
> I believe that each of us will present the profession differently 
> according to her own set of knowledge and believe system and it is 
> essential that we will form this presentation as early as possible.  It 
> will change through the years but bridging our ability to explain what we 
> do professionally to others is as essential as doing the work.  Lets add 
> yet another few hours to our curriculum.
> thank you Lora
> Nava Lotan
>
>
>
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