Supplemental Instruction (SI)

What is SI?

Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an academic assistance program that utilizes peer-assisted study sessions. SI sessions are regularly-scheduled, informal review sessions in which students compare notes, discuss readings, develop organizational tools, and predict test items. Students learn how to integrate course content and study skills while working together.

Student Support Services will be providing Supplemental Instruction for Psychology 101 during the Fall 2010. The class will be held Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 11:00-11:50am.

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

  1. 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.
  2. The faculty members of the identified historically difficult courses invite and support SI. Faculty members screen SI leaders for content competency and approve selections.
  3. The SI leaders are students who have been deemed course competent, approved by the course instructor, and trained in proactive learning and study strategies.
  4. 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.

SI at ASC

The SI Supervisor, working with the department chairs and faculty of Psychology, will identify and recruit students to serve as the SI leader for Psychology 101. To be considered for the SI leader position, students must have taken Psychology 101 and performed well and/or be a Psychology major.

For more information on the SI leader position, check out the job description below.

To apply to be the Psychology 101 SI leader, please fill the following forms and turn them in to Tanya Martin on the first floor of Pettey's in the Student Support Services office.

If you would like more information on SI or have any questions about the program, please call Tanya Martin at 719-587-8156.