teacher evaluation protocols

[Karlin, Ben]

Chris,

You might try getting in touch with Bob Clowes, Executive Director of the
European Society for Mental Health and Deafness, at <bob at esmhd.org>.  The
current president of ESMHD is in France, Dr Alexis Karakostas, and they are
in the thick of the efforts to get national and international recognition of
signed languages.  They are, I believe, involved in France and have
experience from pursuing this in other countries.

Here in Missouri (central U.S.) the senate just failed to pass a bill which
would have recognized ASL as the language of Deaf Missourians and granted
foreign language credit for coursework.  One senator said they're no experts
but the Deaf community has not expressed a preference for any one language.


I am looking forward to finally coming to Montreal this summer for Critical
Link, a little late for the TISLR conference there... by what?  Six years?
Seven?

Ben Karlin <mfkarlb at mail.dmh.state.mo.us>
Lic. Interpreter, St. Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center
The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of my employer or
the Missouri Dept. of Mental Health 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Miller [mailto:miller.christopher at UQAM.CA]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:08 PM
> To: SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> Subject: Q: teacher evaluation protocols
> 
> 
> I have a question that I a m hoping some list member(s) can 
> help me with, 
> regarding evaluation protocols for sign language teachers.
> 
> The French Ministry of Education (perhaps even the government 
> as a whole) 
> is apparently preparing to grant some form of official 
> recognition for 
> French Sign Language and representatives of the French Deaf 
> community, who 
> have a meeting with the Ministry May 9th, need to present 
> them with some 
> credible materials to begin to put in place a framework for 
> use of the 
> language in schools. In France  there are apparently no protocols for 
> measuring or evaluating teachers' proficiency in and knowledge of the 
> grammar of French Sign Language.
> 
> Is anyone on the list aware of such protocols that are used, 
> perhaps as 
> part of a teacher training programme in your country or at your 
> institution, that could in principle be adapted to evaluating the 
> linguistic competence of teachers in schools for Deaf 
> children in France? 
> If so, would you be able to send me relevant materials or at least 
> describe them so I can forward the information to the people 
> concerned? 
> The pressing deadline for presenting *credible* proposals to 
> the French 
> government is May 9, so the faster I can forrward any useful 
> information, 
> the better.
> 
> Many thanks for any help, and remember: this is important for the 
> advancement of the French Deaf community!
> 
> Chris Miller
> 
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