Rising to the challenge with pride: a community of practice at work
For our interpreting students on the MA Conference Interpreting at London Metropolitan University it is our second week of online teaching. We actually went online even before the University suggested we should. This was a collaborative decision made with students and staff together during a Zoom consultation meeting. Our students come from many countries including Italy, Spain, China and Japan where their families were already in quarantine or isolation. They were worried and did not feel comfortable to travel to University. We then collectively decided that teaching would adapt to integrate the students' concerns. MA Conference Interpreting students and tutors closing a mock conference online. We are proud to say that we have not missed a single class since the Coronavirus crisis. From our mock conferences, to language specific interpreting tutorials, workshops and interpreting practice, we have delivered all our classes. We, the tutors and students...