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Supplemental Instruction (SI). Jessica Enders & Tara McCarthy HSI Title V FLEX 2012. Overview. What is SI? What is an SI Leader ? Faculty Involvement and Cooperation Hiring and Training Data Collection and Evaluation Fall 2012 Schedule How to Request an SI Leader. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Supplemental Instruction (SI)
Jessica Enders & Tara McCarthy HSI Title VFLEX 2012
• What is SI? • What is an SI Leader?• Faculty Involvement and Cooperation• Hiring and Training• Data Collection and Evaluation• Fall 2012 Schedule• How to Request an SI Leader
Overview
Tell me and I forget…
Show me and I remember…
Involve me and I understand.
• Developed by Dr. Deanna Martin in 1973 at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
• SI is everywhere...• An academic support program that targets historically difficult
courses. • A non-remedial approach to learning enrichment that
increases student performance and retention.
What is Supplemental Instruction (SI)?
• SI offers review sessions to all students enrolled in a targeted course. SI study sessions are informal seminars in which students review notes, discuss readings, develop organizational tools and prepare for exams.
• Students learn how to integrate course content with reasoning and study skills.
• Students with varying levels of academic preparedness and diverse ethnicities participate. There is no remedial stigma attached to SI since the program targets high-risk courses rather than high-risk students.
What is Supplemental Instruction (SI)?
Peer-facilitated, regularly scheduled, out-of-class review
sessions, that incorporate collaborative learning
techniques and study skills related to a specific section.
In Short...
• SI Leaders are typically students themselves who have taken the class before and earned a high grade (A or B).
• Traditionally faculty recommend the leaders.• SI Leaders attend class every day, model positive student
behavior, take notes, and listen closely to the professor. • SI Leaders also share with students how to effectively study
for the course. • SI Leaders are NOT teaching assistants. They do not grade
homework or tests, or lecture during class.
What is an SI Leader?
• Handout and FAQ’s
Faculty Involvement and Cooperation
• Hiring: – Faculty Referral Form– Online Application– Faculty Recommendation– Interview and Training– On-going Observation
• Two-day Training: – Collaborative Learning Techniques– Strategies for Facilitating Group Discussion and Redirecting Questions– SI Planning Sheets– Bloom’s Taxonomy and Learning Styles
SI Hiring/Training
• Attendance Sheets• Final Grades• Student Evaluation (Beginning, Mid and Final) • Faculty Evaluation• SI Leader Observations
*Thank you to Michael Harlow for designing all the electronic forms!
Data Collection
1) Retention- To increase retention within targeted historically difficult courses a. Measure: D, W, F rates of SI and non-SI students
2) Learning- To improve student grades in targeted historically difficult courses a. Measure: Mean final course grades of SI and non-SI students
within the same section. In addition:• Number of students served by SI Program (number of
students attending SI sessions)• Students satisfaction with SI Program
Evaluation of SI Program
• Basic Skills– 3 English/Reading – 5 Math
• Transfer-Level (funded by the Cooperative Title V HSI Grant)– 2 English– 2 Math
Fall 2012
Requesting an SI Leader
For additional information, please contact:
Tara McCarthyHSI Title V SI/Tutorial Coordinator