Supplemental Instruction (SI)

1. Supplemental Instruction (SI) Jessica Enders & Tara McCarthy HSI Title V FLEX 2012

2. 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

3. Tell me and I forget… Show me and I remember… Involve me and I understand.

4. What is Supplemental Instruction (SI)? • 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.

5. 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.

6. In Short... Peer-facilitated, regularly scheduled, out-of-class review sessions, that incorporate collaborative learning techniques and study skills related to a specific section.

7. What is an SI Leader? • 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.

8. Faculty Involvement and Cooperation • Handout and FAQ’s

9. SI Hiring/Training • 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

10. Data Collection • 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!

11. Evaluation of SI Program • Retention- To increase retention within targeted historically difficult courses • Measure: D, W, F rates of SI and non-SI students • Learning- To improve student grades in targeted historically difficult courses • 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

12. Fall 2012 • Basic Skills • 3 English/Reading • 5 Math • Transfer-Level(funded by the Cooperative Title V HSI Grant) • 2 English • 2 Math

13. Requesting an SI Leader

14. For additional information, please contact: Tara McCarthy HSI Title V SI/Tutorial Coordinator 760-776-7333 tmccarthy@collegeofthedesert.edu