Can you relay a message?

Class is over. Your student left. You are packing your bag. The professor comes up to you and asks, "can you tell your student x, y, and z? Please."

You have seen her talk directly to your student before so you conclude she wasn't avoiding your student but just missed them before they left.

Although you consider
1.) telling her you'll have the student talk to her at the beginning of class tomorrow.
2.) saying when you see the student in class, you'll tell them

Instead you say sure. After all, you'll see them again in 15 minutes.

Right? Wrong? Options?

Obama says thanks

Obama says thank you

This is a cool clip of the President responding in ASL.

What do we do, again?

Your students are working in a small group with hearing students. The professor takes 5 minutes explains the task at hand. He repeats the information again and again giving examples and explanations. You faithfully interpret it all. When the explanations are over and the professor says to start working, a hearing student says to you, "miss, what did the teacher want us to do?"

--keep in mind, if the hearing students don't understand the work, their low performance will bring down your student's grades.
--what are your options?
--how would the grade level (elementary, middle school or high school, college) impact your decision?

They are just not that into you...

It's the last hour of a long school day. The teacher is reviewing past lessons--information your students know, and know signs for. Why, then, do they look at you as if you are from outer space?

You sign, "write this down on that paper. It will collected at the end of class.". Then you sign to them word-for-word what to write. They just stare. You sign it a different way. Nothing. You try again and wonder if zombies have eaten your kids' brains. You take another stab, this time asking questions about the subject material. This gets barely a nod of the head.

--are your kids ignoring you?
--is it just that it's the end of the day?
--or are you a lousy interpreter??
--regardless, what can be done?

Kids these days...

You interpret in high school and the current trend is for young men to pull their trousers down, exposing their boxers. Your student walks to the front of the class to hand in his work and the way back to his seat--your not looking! But can't help noticing -- he has a hole in his underwear. You look down, shake your head and when your student sits down you tell him to pull up his pants. He shrugs you off as all lame adults tell him the same thing.

Should you
--do nothing. After all, you don't want people to think you were looking.
--tell him about his wardrobe malfunction. After all, he wouldn't want other laughing at him.
--tell the school social worker to tell him. That way it doesn't come from you but he gets the info.

Keep up!!!

You are interpreting a high school English lesson. The teacher is teaching and reading quickly as she feels pressure to get her lesson in before her iPad timer rings. You are frantically keeping up but feel your doing a lousy job conveying information. You check in with your students asking a broad question about the topic. They answer correctly but still give puzzled faces back to you. You ask what's up and they say the teacher is going too fast. You ask if they want to review the info again.

--is this type of interaction appropriate? You do it all the time and see others do it too
--when the student ask for vocab clarification, is it ok to give them a definition or should you call the teacher over.

Tattle tale Terp

One of your mainstream high school students skipped one class to study for a test he was stressed about. You know this because he told you. You mention to his teacher--the one for the test he was studying for. She said that wasn't ok and she was going to talk to him.

--was it ok to tell the teacher? After all, you are part of the educational team.

--or was it a violation of confidentiality.