Supplemental Instruction at UD

If you are enrolled in a class that offers Supplemental Instruction (SI), you have a special opportunity to do well in that class. Your class will have an SI Leader, a peer facilitator, who holds two regularly scheduled study sessions outside of class hours for you and other students in your class. Your SI Leader will attend your class every day, so she or he will know exactly what your professor is telling you and asking you to learn.

SI sessions are not study halls or additional lecture sessions. Rather, they are time for you to work collaborative with your SI Leader and the other students in your class to solidify your understanding of class material. You might work with others to compare and complete your notes from class, prepare together for an upcoming test, practice solving problems like those your instructor is introducing, or draw concept maps to help you organize and learn new material from class.

There is no homework for these sessions and nothing special to do to prepare for them. In fact, attending the SI sessions for your class is simply a good way to study for your class and can mean that you spend less time, but spend it more effectively, than studying on your own. You can also use the strategies you learn in SI to help you to well in other classes.

SI is offered in the following courses for the Spring 2010 semester:

Ask your Instructor if SI is available in your section.

• Chemistry 123
• Chemistry 124
• Math 138
• Math 207
• Math 218
• Physics 202