Office of Language Access

You are invited to participate in an upcoming professional development webinar for interpreters:

Subject: Invitation: June 27 Interpreter Webinar – Deliberate Practice & Terp Introduction

Date: Saturday, June 27, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (HST)
Format: Zoom Webinar (registration required)

Registration:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mO6wMmkHQ32aeWIFMv62_w#/registration

Speaker:  Professor Devin Gilbert:

About the Webinar

This session will introduce foundational principles of deliberate practice for interpreters and provide an overview of Terp, an online practice and collaboration platform.

During the session, we will:

• Discuss how deliberate practice helps interpreters build expertise
  • Explain how participants can form communities of practice and give structured feedback
  • Help attendees develop individual and group plans for the next 3–4 months
  • Provide an introduction to Terp’s features and explain how it will support practice groups over the coming months

Participants will also be invited to form or join language‑specific groups so they may continue collaborating between webinars.

Access to Terp (IMPORTANT)

The Hawai‘i State Office of Language Access (OLA) will cover the cost of a limited number of Terp accounts for webinar participants.

AFTER registering via Zoom, participants will receive:
• Instructions on how to sign up for a Terp account

• A video tutorial created specifically for this project (prepared by Terp)
• Directions for joining the Hawai‘i OLA Terp Community and your language‑specific Sub‑Community (created by Terp)

To ensure accounts go to those who will actively use them, participants will be asked to apply for an OLA‑funded Terp account. We encourage at least 2–4 applicants per language so each language has enough members for a strong community of practice.

Those who choose not to apply for an OLA-funded Terp account may still:
• Attend the webinar
• Learn about deliberate practice
• Obtain their own Terp subscription later, if desired, and join a practice community

Zoom Registration Requirement

To attend, you must register for the Zoom webinar.  After registering in Zoom, the Zoom link email will provide Terp sign-up instructions.  Each participant will be asked to identify which language community you are requesting within Terp.   Please read the instructions to ensure you are familiar with Terp in advance, which significantly improves the workshop experience.   All pariticpants MUST register in Terp by June 24 (Wednesday) in order to participate directly in the Terp experience portion of the webinar.

Speaker Bio:

Devin Gilbert is a translation/interpreting practitioner, educator, and researcher. He teaches Spanish Translation and Interpreting as an Assistant Professor at Utah Valley University’s (UVU) Department of Languages & Cultures, having undertaken his training at Wake Forest University’s Master’s in Interpreting and Translation Studies program and Kent State University’s PhD in Translation Studies program. Devin is also a board member of the Utah Translators and Interpreters Association and is a certified healthcare interpreter and educational interpreter for Spanish. In 2022, he started developing Terp, a web-based interpreting training platform that seeks to make quality, authentic interpreting practice dialogues more accessible and interactive.