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Advanced Interpretive Management
Advanced interpreters need a wide variety of skills and abilities which they can develop through the interpretive curriculum. Options exist to cross-over train in areas of interpretive management, planning, cooperating associations, and educational program management.
Comprehensive Interpretive Planning
Parks will be called upon to create and develop their own comprehensive interpretive plans. Firm grasp of planning strategy and the recommended approach of the NPS will provide a systematic approach to meeting interpretive needs.
Conducted Activities
Conducted activities are built upon the essential foundation of the interpretive talk. These interpretive programs include additional elements which complicate delivery, yet offer a vast range of options and opportunities to the interpreter.
Demonstration & Other Illustrated Programs
Demonstrations and illustrated programs build on successful interpretive talk techniques. Interpreters must acquire the skill of successfully telling the story, while highlighting it with props or photographs. Special care must be taken to make the objects a "vehicle" and not the focus of the program.
Informal Interpretation
The rationale, strategy, and techniques of informing visitors of both informational and interpretive facts through other than formal programs. This includes being able to properly assess what the visitor informational needs are using several means, and including one-to-one communication.
Interpretive Media
This competency builds upon the personal and non-personal interpretive services options which an interpreter has at his/her disposal. With a range of alternatives available, the interpreter will be able to match the best interpretive approach with the message and audience being addressed.
Interpretive Talks
This competency includes pre-program planning, identifying delivery options, and outlining and delivering an effective interpretive program.
Interpretive Writing
Interpretive writing includes articles, exhibit labels, trailside markers, booklets, bulletins, and other formats. Successful writers must take their skill one step higher to create writing which provokes, tells a whole story, and is evocative to wide ranging audiences.
Introduction to Education Programs
Basic education programs include organized pre-visit packages, conducted activities on-site, and a follow up program to assure that learning has taken place.
Introduction to Interpretive Supervision
Special characteristics of an interpretive supervisor. The developmental opportunities would provide the employee with insight into later career options for interpreters considering interpretive supervision/management.
Parkwide Education Programs
This is the ability to develop and manage a park-wide education program, which is integrated into at least one school district curriculum. Extensive planning and development is needed to meet standards and expectations of all parties and assure that the program is maintained at a consistently professional level for the site, agency and school district goals in education.
Partners in Interpretation
Interpretive supervisors and managers must be able to work cooperatively with a range of local/private organizations and institutions that share similar expectations or outcomes for interpretation. These competencies will provide skills necessary for working with others to meet common interpretive goals.
Visitor Needs & Characteristics
Visitors in all informational/interpretive settings must see relevance in the message and importance of the parks they visit. Beyond that, there are communities in regions surrounding the parks that either are, or are not included in the effort to get the message and mandates of the parks out to the public.
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