Supplemental Instruction (SI)
How do Students Benefit?
- SI is proactive and participatory rather than reactive and passive
- Students earn higher grades while they learn effective study skills
- SI provides peer collaborative learning experiences
- SI makes efficient use of study time
- SI provides an opportunity for students to develop relationships to other students, faculty, and staff
How SI works @ ASU
- The SI Coordinator is a trained professional who is responsible for identifying the targeted courses, gaining faculty support, selecting and training SI leaders, and evaluating the program.
- The faculty members of the identified historically difficult courses invite and support SI. Faculty members screen SI leaders for content competency and approve selections.
- The SI leaders are students who have been deemed course competent, approved by the course instructor, and trained in proactive learning and study strategies.
- Students participating in the SI sessions are of course the most crucial component of SI.
SI leaders attend course lectures, take notes, read all assigned materials, and conduct two to three out-of-class SI sessions a week. The SI leader is the "model student," a facilitator who helps students to integrate course content and learning/study strategies.
The GTLC currently supports Supplemental Instruction in Accounting I, Anatomy & Physiology, Introduction to Stats Lecture/Lab, Psychology 101. If you are interested in taking a course with Supplemental Instruction, contact your academic advisor for further information.
