Assignment
• Watch Wright Brothers program
• Act as the interpreter’s peer or
supervisor
• How would you coach this
interpreter?
• 20 minutes
Interpretive Analysis Model
• Helps to identify interpretive elements
• Tool for self-evaluation, coaching, and
development
• Provides a strategy for positive
assessment
• Does not address accuracy, style,
technique, and delivery
Interpretive Analysis Model
• What is your initial reaction?
• Identify the central idea
• Identify interpretive techniques
• Identify tangible/intangible links
created by each technique
Interpretive Analysis Model
• What response does each link
provoke, evoke, or inspire?
• Consider the whole product
• Compare notes
• Suggest improvement
What is your initial reaction?
• How did the product make you feel?
• Appropriate for audience and place?
• Audience response?
• What worked?
• What needs improvement?
Identify the central idea
Cohesively developed ideas provide
structure for the audience
• Does the interpretive product flow?
• Does it have a focus?
• Is it engaging and relevant?
Identify interpretive techniques
stories, explanations, games,
examples, presentation of evidence,
quotes, analogies, comparisons,
illustrations, questions,
demonstrations, activities,
discussions . . .
Identify tangible/intangible links
created by each technique
Interpretive techniques link tangibles
and their intangible meanings
Tangibles - objects, people, places,
events
Intangibles - processes, ideas,
relationships, concepts, values
What response does each link
provoke, evoke, or inspire?
Interpretive techniques develop
tangible/intangible links into opportunities
for connections to resource meanings
• comprehension, discovery, insight,
recognition, revelation, understanding
of concepts . . . intellectual
• amazement, curiosity, compassion,
empathy, grief, happiness, surprise,
wonder . . . emotional
Example
• Tangible/intangible link:
mountain/challenge
• Technique: diary excerpt from famous
mountaineer
• Intended response: inspiration
Mountain/challenge + diary excerpt =
opportunity for emotional connections to
the challenge of mountains
Consider the whole product
• Revisit the central idea
• Review opportunities for
connections to resource meanings
• Are opportunities sequenced,
arranged and organized?
Compare notes
• Broadens understanding
• Professionalism
Suggest improvement
• Build upon what exists
• Happens throughout the process
• All interpretive products can be
improved
Interpretive Analysis Model
• What is your initial reaction?
• Identify the central idea
• Identify interpretive techniques
• Identify tangible/intangible links
created by each technique
Interpretive Analysis Model
• What response does each link
provoke, evoke, or inspire?
• Consider the whole product
• Compare notes
• Suggest improvement
Practice
• Read “A Forest’s Lesson”
• Work through Analysis Model
• Prepare to discuss
• 30 minutes
Interlude
• NPS Fundamentals Video
• 15 minutes
More practice
• Watch Sequoia Tree program
• Apply Analysis Model
• Prepare to discuss
• 30 minutes
Additional resources
• www.nps.gov/idp/interp
• Peers
• Nancy_Holman@nps.gov
• Charles_Beall@nps.gov