Supplemental Instruction

Supplemental Instruction Schedule  

Supplemental Instruction (SI) offers students in historically challenging courses the opportunity to attend weekly review sessions led by students who not only have mastered the difficult courses but who also have demonstrated their ability to lead future students through the course material. Indeed, when faculty choose a student as an SI leader, they are confident the student will serve as a model of leadership excellence to other students.

The SI leader attends class regularly to help ensure that the material covered in SI sessions is a review of course topics. Additionally, regular communicationbetween the SI leader and the faculty supervisor promotes earlier recognition of problems students may be having with material. These areas then may be addressed in SI sessions, class meetings by the faculty member, or both. Although sessions are voluntary for students, attendance and course grade data show that students who attend SI sessions perform nearly a letter grade higher than those who do not attend sessions.

For more information please contact Katherine Vigilante, Lecturer in Political Science .