Interpretation

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Interpretation Education

• Communicating with the general Public

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Tildens Principles

• Interpretation is
• 1. Relate to the visitors experiences
• 2. Not just be information, but revelation based
  on information
• 3. A teachable art
• 4. Chief aim is provocation
• 5. Present a whole address the whole person
• 6. Follow a different approach for children and
  adults

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• Questioning strategies to help achieve these
  points
• 1. Avoid broad questions (i.e. what is this?)
• 2. Lead them to the answer step by step
• 3. Ask questions that can be answered
  successfully
• 4. NO answer is wrong. Find a way that every
  answer could be right.
• 5. Use questions that RELATE, PROVOKE, EXCITE

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Questioning Methods

• Encourage Fluency
• Brainstorming
• Encourage Flexibility
• Change Direction
• Encourage Elaboration
• Clarify make topic interesting

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Questioning Methods (cont)

• Encourage Evaluation and Judging
• Encourage Predicting and Inferring

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Good Tour has four parts

• The Staging Part
• You want to be a good host/hostess since the
  audience is visiting your home. You want them
  to feel comfortable but stay within your rules .

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Staging should cover

• Greeting people
• Provide opportunity to use restroom, take group
  pictures, etc.
• Inform group of any special rules they need to be
  aware of
• Inform group of tour length and where they will
  be when tour is finished
• Tell them of physical requirements
• Find out what group interests are

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• Introduction
• Starting point of your tour. Besides introducing
  the theme of your tour, the introduction gives
  your audience focus to what they are going to
  see and experience while on their tour.

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Introduction should

• Orient the audience to the theme of the tour
• Create interest in the topic
• Tell the group a little about some of the things
  they will see
• Sets the stage for the conclusion
• Repeats some of the information said during the
  staging period.

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• The tour body
• As the main part of the tour, this is where you
  develop the theme and ideas of the tour.

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Tour Body should

• Select stops ahead of time that support your
  theme
• BE SELECTIVE about the information you impart at
  each stop.
• Be flexible to take advantage of those
  teachable moments to answer spontaneous
  questions or capitalize on an unexpected
  opportunity.

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• The conclusion
• Closure and comments which might encourage
  visitors to do more exploration on their own.

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Conclusion will

• Reinforce the theme
• Show one last time the relationship between the
  theme and the things your audience saw
• Be short and specific!!!
• Signal a clear ending to the tour.

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Providing a quality tour and presentation takes
Practice !