Deaf Education Teachers - Help ensure that the classroom environment can be interpreted

The deaf educator is typically sensitive to the challenges that classrooms can be for deaf and hh students. There can be problems with an interpreted education that do not have to do with the interpreter’s skills. Some classrooms and some teachers can be more challenging to interpret than others. The deaf educator can help the classroom interpreter and the classroom teacher evaluate the placement for what challenges the teacher’s teaching style or management style may add to the interpreter’s already big job. Hearing teachers without much experience with deaf hoh students may not naturally understand how to adjust their teaching style to allow the interpreter to perform well.