1. Supplemental Instruction at Georgia College

2. What is Supplemental Instruction?
Non-remedial, peer-guided study sessions for all students in a given class
Free service, voluntary participation
Regularly scheduled, planned review sessions
Dedicated time for students to build content knowledge in collaboration with peers
Integrating study skills
Opportunity to build confidence, content language, leadership and communication skills
Unique program for building horizontal and vertical relationships
SI leaders are not undergraduate Teaching Assistants –
SI Leaders cannot grade, assess, or evaluate student
performance nor do they teach new material.

3. Purpose of the SI Program
To increase retention within targeted historically difficult courses
To improve student grades in targeted historically difficult courses
To increase the graduation rates of students UMKC website

4. A bit of our SI history Individual STEM grants to faculty
About 4 per year
Physics, Chemistry, Biology
2012: Centralized Academic Support
Centralizing support addressed:
Training
Reporting
Data Collection
Programmatic uniformity
Comprehensive support for SI leaders
Contact for faculty
Delivery improvements

5. Growth in SI Program Fall 2012 Spring 2013 48 53 23 22 43 44 87
Semester
Total Request
STEM funded
Total Funded
Fall 2012
Spring 2013 48 53 23 22 43 44 87
Fall 2013
Spring 2014 62 61 26 31 46 49 95
Fall 2014
Spring 2015 71 68 21 16 47 45 92
Fall 2015
Spring 2016 56 72 50
118
Fall 2016
Spring 2017 76 58 42
125

6. Growth Creates Opportunities & Challenges
For administrator
Training (content related issues)
Effectively supporting and mentoring SI Leaders each semester
Communication
Providing observations & feedback
Volumes of Paperwork (session plans, observations, attendance, training)
Sharing of best practices
SI Leaders and Coaches Reflections
Lack of community amongst leaders
Developing the leaders individually
For Leaders
Large numbers, minimal attention
Course specific challenges
Time with administrator
Easy session documentation
Executive tasks (creative session plans, turning things in)
Easy access to attendance program, payroll website, and archived session plans
1-stop ‘shopping’
Receiving on-going, real-time support
Gaining skills
Professional development

7. Volumes of Paperwork. Red folders = Spring 2016
Volumes of Paperwork! Red folders = Spring Blue folders = Fall (old system) (new system)

8. Solution to most of our Challenges: Build a Website
Senior student – internship & capstone for CSCI major
LC Peer Tutor, SI leader, and SI Coach
Develop over summer
Collaborate with Director & SI Coaches
Set goals
Small test market (admin and coaches)
Amend & improve, add features
Launch for Fall 2016 use

9. New Website Launched! Program built by Brian Minter for senior capstone/internship with CSCI
Public Calendar
Personal Calendar
Session Plans
Opportunity for feedback, support, and encouragement
Sharing best practices
Search function for archived session plans
Observation forms
Community of Practice Agendas
Opportunity to commercialize product

10. First Goals of Website Give leaders a place to upload documents
Handle Planning Sheets more efficiently
Give leaders a place to upload documents
Increase collaboration among leaders

11. Secondary Goals of Website
One-Stop-Shop for SI Program
Attendance and Notes for Coaching Sessions
Observation Forms
Calendar
Announcements
Notifications
Ability to Search for Best Practices

30. Your USG STEM Summit Temporary Account
Ipad or personal laptop:
gcsusi.com
User name – STEM Summit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Password: Leader17
Working in small groups
Create a profile including day/times for your imaginary May classes
Add the day/times for your SI sessions
Work on a Session Plan

31. Website Usage – first year
Website Usage counts
Fall 2016
Spring 2017
Users/Accounts
 72 SILs, 8 SICs, 2 Adm
 53 SILs, 7 SICs, 3 Adm, added 4 SICs in Training
Planning Sheets
1,115
 893
Content Techniques
2,364
 2,452
Observation Forms 56
 30
Notifications
6,045
8,345
Coaching Attendance
596
 381
Uploads
270
 229

32. Final Result: Kudo

33. Thank-you
Questions?
Suggestions Welcome!