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Sessions for Educators @ATA66

Thursday Educators & Trainers Topics Agenda October 23, 2025

2:40 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. EDT (024) Panel Discussion: Formal T&I Training Programs – What’s So Great about Training Anyway? – Audra Lincoln, Lorelei Brand, & Evan Laufman

Friday Educators & Trainers Topics Agenda October 24, 2025

1:30 – 2:30 EDT (048) Empowering Future Interpreters: Harnessing Metacognition for Vocabulary Mastery in University Courses – Isabel Asensio

2:40 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. EDT (062) “AI Is Not Superhuman, We Are”: Upgrading Translators Skills in the AI Era – Miguel Angel Jimenez-Crespo

4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. EDT (077) Academia Meets Real World: Collaborations between Interpreters and Translators in Classroom Settings – Fatima Maria Cornwall & Diana Arbiser

4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. EDT (079) Teaching Transcreation Online in the AI Environment – Elizabeth Lowe

Saturday Educators & Trainers Topics Agenda October 25, 2025

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EDT (101) Teaching the Next Generation of Language Professionals – Yasmin Alkashef & Annelise Finegan, GALA Board of Directors

2:40 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. EDT (132) Lost in Idioms: Navigating Top English Pitfalls for Mandarin Interpreters – Andrew Clifford & Sian (Xiang) Gu


Mission Statement

“The mission of the ATA’s Educators Division is to enhance the educational experience of translation and interpreting students by offering educators and trainers a platform to share knowledge, experience, and resources, and helping each other in becoming better instructors. ATA’s Educators Division emphasizes inclusiveness by connecting instructors of translation and interpreting at all different levels and language combinations, and it heavily depends on the collegiality of its members to fulfill its mission.”