1. Make-up Supplemental Instruction (SI) Fall 2018 FLEX Week
Faculty Orientation
Monday, August 13, 11:15-12:30, L-149
Tuesday, August 14, 3:00-4:15, L-160
Make-up

2. The Gist of SI in Pictures

3. The Essential Elements
Targets Subjects Not Students
Offers Peer-Facilitated Sessions
Combines Content & Study Skills
Leader Attends Every Class Meeting
Leader Receives Ongoing Training

4. Foundational Logistics: Day-to-Day SI Operations
What you as faculty need to know:

5. Scheduling of classrooms for SI sessions
SI Area cubbies hold max students
Can schedule large sessions in empty classrooms
Have a room in mind? Let me know.
All reservations must go through our Events Scheduling
Dept.
SI Leaders ARE permitted to run sessions unsupervised
in classrooms on campus except during your
regular class session

6. How do an SI Leader’s weekly hours break down?
Typical Schedule of Average SI Leader
Job Responsibility
Hours per Week
1. Attend SI Class Meetings
3-4, depending on the course
2. Hold SI Sessions
2-6, depending on how many CRNs are being attended/supported
3. Plan for Sessions (complete paperwork)
(allowed flat amount of 30 min. per session)
1-3 hours, depending on # of SI sessions held weekly
4. Meeting with Instructor
0.5 hours
5. Attending Mentor Meetings
0.5 hours (8 hrs. spread over semester
TOTAL HOURS: (max allowed is 19)

7. Your Leader’s Assistance in the Classroom Goal is to maximize student contact = better attendance at SI sessions
Two caveats to keep in mind:
1. Your Leader is not permitted to grade papers for you…sorry to disappoint you!
2. Your Leader is not allowed to run your class while you are absent—liability issue
*However, Leader can hold an SI session during regular class time IF the session is held in our SI area or another classroom besides the usual location.

8. Completing Weekly Paperwork…excellent training for future professional careers!
EVERY MONDAY BY 5 PM, for the previous week, your Leader MUST:
Turn in a Weekly Time Log (WTL) with your signature
Turn in 1 Session Plan (SP)
Make sure their digital timesheet (called WTE) is updated through the previous Friday.
--If the Leader missed a training (Mentor Meeting), then a makeup must be turned in for that as well. SP
WTL

9. Each weekly duty not fulfilled equals a WARNING…
notification to you and Leader
5 warnings = dismissal from Program

10. Take a look at the SI Leader Duties Checklist
Clearly lays out all responsibilities
and when they are required

11. When Your Leader is Absent…
Leader must send an to both you
and me to communicate absence
Leader needs a way to communicate
absence to your students
--share class list with Leader OR
--Leader can use the Remind App

13. Foster sense of teamwork with your Leader
Hold regular weekly meetings
See agendas for 1st meeting and subsequent meetings
Allow Leader to promote SI EVERY class meeting
Let your students know regularly what a valuable resource
your Leader is—let them see the two of you working
together closely!
When possible, allow your Leader to provide mini-lessons
to the class
View yourself as your Leader’s Mentor—many want to
become educators :=)…some change their career goal
after working with you!!

14. A Suggestion…
If the semester is progressing well and you are full of gratitude
for your SI Leader, why not show it by taking your Leader out
to lunch for one of your weekly meetings? Or providing lunch at
your office?

15. Goal for SI Sessions: Leader does less talking; students take a more active role
SI session is NOT a rehash of your lecture
Leader should be pinpointing areas of difficulty to
emphasize (notice in class and/or receive guidance from you)
Leader needs to plan engaging activities that involve
ALL attendees in applying the content
Students should have to go up to the board, explain
information to the rest of the group, work in small
groups and then share findings with whole group, etc.
In other words…SI sessions should offer students unique opportunities that are logistically impossible in the regular class

16. What to do if Leader falters…
What are some ways an SI Leader might struggle?
Examples: not turning in weekly paperwork by deadlines, missing excessive number of sessions and/or class meetings, not focused while sitting in on class, receiving complaints from multiple students

17. Ways to help Leader Stay on Track
All of this can be done during your weekly meeting.
Communicate what you’re noticing
Attempt to create an action plan to address
issue
Follow up to see how things are going
Include me!

18. Never lose sight of the fact that…
Your Leader is…
BC’s cream of the crop but also still
a work in progress
Under a lot of pressure from own courses,
SI responsibilities, sometimes another
job, family issues, etc.
Most likely, a future leader in society
We can help them secure future
employment by serving as references

19. To Add Your SI Leader to Canvas…
Contact:
Tracy Lovelace
Educational Media Design Specialist
L-156

20. And, don’t forget a simple move you can make for Week 1 to increase likelihood of SI attendance!
Give your class a tour!

21. A Parting Quote: for your time!
TO WRAP UP:
A Parting Quote:
“Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.”  ― Richie Norton
for your time!