Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment clarifies the mentorship
program.
(1) For the purpose
of this rule, a mentorship is a supervised professional experience in which a
mentor interpreter provides instruction, guidance, and oversight to a mentee
interpreter while engaged in a series of instructional activities designed with
the purpose of attaining clearly defined, specific professional development
goals.
(A) Applications for mentorship shall
be submitted to the committee on forms prescribed by the committee prior to the
start of the mentorship. The application shall contain statements demonstrating
the education, professional experience, and certification by either the
National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, National Association of the
Deaf, or Missouri Interpreters Certification System and such other information
requested by the committee . The application shall also contain a description
of the professional development goals for the mentorship, the instructional
activities that will be used to accomplish those goals, and the methods of
assessment that will be used to evaluate those goals.
(B) Each application shall be accompanied by
the required application fee. The application fee is non-refundable. A
mentorship shall be valid for a period of time not to exceed six (6)
consecutive months.
(2)
A mentor interpreter shall be an interpreter who has a current license, and a
current Missouri Interpreters Certification System (MICS) Basic, Advanced
certification for five (5) years or Master certification for three (3) years or
a current nationally recognized certification as prescribed in section
209.322,
RSMo and 20
CSR 2232-2.040 for five (5) years.
(A) The mentor shall be limited to a maximum
of three (3) mentoring relationships at the same time.
(3) A mentee shall be an interpreter who has
a current license, and a current Missouri Interpreters Certification System
(MICS) Basic or Advanced certification or a current nationally recognized
certification as prescribed in section
209.322,
RSMo, and 20 CSR 2232-2.040.
(A) The mentee is limited to a maximum of
three (3) mentoring relationships at the same time.
(4) While engaged in a mentorship approved by
the committee and while under the direct supervision of a mentor interpreter, a
mentee interpreter may interpret in an interpreting assignment that is one (1)
skill level above the mentee's current certification level as prescribed in the
Skill Level Standards,
5 CSR
100-200.170.
(A) The
mentee shall revert the duties of the assignment to the mentor at the mentor's
request.
(B) A mentor shall
function as a guide and provide oversight to the mentee in the interpreting
assignment and have the appropriate training, skills, education, and
certification for the assignment as required by the Skill Level Standards
(5 CSR
100-200.170 ).
(C) The mentor must be present and is
responsible for the accuracy of the interpretation within the interpreting
assignment.
(D) Prior to the
interpreting assignment, all participants in the assignment must be informed of
the license and certification level held by the mentor interpreter and mentee
interpreter as required in
20 CSR
2232-3.020 and of the responsibilities of the mentor
interpreter and mentee interpreter as defined in 20 CSR
2232-3.030(4).
(E) Prior to the
interpreting assignment, all participants in the assignment must give approval
for the mentee interpreter to interpret, while under the direct supervision of
the mentor interpreter.
(F) The
mentor is not responsible for the actions and conduct of the mentee outside of
the interpreting assignment.
*Original authority: 209.328, RSMo
1994.
