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Supplemental
Instruction Supervisor Training
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
January 13, 2003 
9AM to 5 PM
January 14, 2003 9 AM to
5 PM
January 15, 2003
9AM to 12PM
On every college campus, there are courses that pose seemingly
impenetrable challenges to students and, often, disproportionately to
students of color. Usually
the courses are entry-level natural science, math, or social science
courses where the level of difficulty discourages students from taking
further coursework in the discipline and in other ways drains their
motivation. These challenging courses particularly affect students who,
for a variety of reasons, question their abilities to succeed in a
selective college environment.
Supplemental
Instruction (SI) is an effective academic support model that increases
student achievement and persistence.
An SI leader, a student who has excelled in a course, attends all
course lectures and conducts small collaborative learning groups to
guide students in mastering course content and effective learning
strategies. An SI Supervisor hires, trains, and supervises SI leaders and
evaluates the program every semester.
SI is a technique that transforms courses often seen as barriers into
gateways to success, allowing students to achieve excellence in the
course and encouraging them to pursue further courses in the
discipline. The technique has proved highly successful on several
Consortium campuses (click on the links below for reports).
The
SI Supervisor Training is two and a half days and covers the following:
the theoretical framework for SI; process activities for conducting SI
sessions in different disciplines; procedures for conducting 2-Day SI
Leader Orientations and weekly inservice trainings; methods for
evaluating program effectiveness; and responsibilities of SI leaders,
faculty, and SI Supervisors. Research documenting the efficacy of
SI, an SI Supervisor Manual, and an SI Leader Manual is provided for
participants. An optional three-hour SI research workshop is
offered following the SI Supervisor Training. The research workshop covers the following: Selecting
appropriate theoretical frameworks to embrace research questions;
methods for collecting, storing, and analyzing data; and interpreting
results.
Trinity
College Pilot Project
College of the Holy Cross Pilot Project
LODGING
Rooms are being held until December 13 at
the The Hastings Hotel (85
Sigourney Street, Hartford,
CT) at a rate of $89
per night, including parking. Please call (800) 777-7803
to make your reservation, indicating that you are with the Consortium Conference at Trinity College.
(Check in at 3 PM and
check out at 12 PM to avoid additional charges)
TRAVEL
Driving
directions: http://lor.trincoll.edu/about/directions.html
Flights to:
http://www.bradleyairport.com/index.shtml
By train:
www.amtrak.com
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