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Requirements for All American Sign Language and Deaf Culture Teachers A teacher of ASL and Deaf culture must: understand the language as a system; understand first and second language acquisition theory and who this informs practice; show an intermediate-plus level of expressive language proficiency on the Signed Communication Proficiency Interview; show an understanding of ASL when it is being communicated to him/her by an individual who signs at the Signed Communication Proficiency Interview's intermediate high level; use familiar topics to describe factual information or routine communication that is understandable to a native ASL user; know where ASL is used; understand the Deaf culture from a variety of perspectives, including historical, geographical, political, and contemporary viewpoints; be familiar with similarities and differences between Deaf and hearing culture in the United States; know the history, customs, and practices of Deaf culture sufficiently to understand why current conditions exist; understand that both content and process are important and that cultural knowledge and understanding are interdisciplinary; understand that culture constantly grows and that developing insights into culture is a lifelong process; know that every cultural phenomenon is unique and is affected by age, geographic region, sex, class, and other factors and that multiple perspectives, value systems, and modes of decision-making and behavior exist; know about cultural stereotyping and how to address it as a result of developing skills in processing information that includes observing, comparing, and inquiring about cultural phenomena, analyzing and hypothesizing about the phenomena, and synthesizing and determining generalizability of the phenomena; compare and contrast cultures of people who use languages other than spoken English with the teacher's own culture; and have opportunities for first-hand experiences in Deaf culture and relate those experiences. MN Rule 8710.4950 Last Modified: 1/1/0001 Size: 0 Author: Categories: Education Department, Tags: ASL and Deaf Culture License,