Academic Skills Center - Supplemental Instruction
The Gage Family Center for Academic Achievement
Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an academic assistance program that increases student performance and retention. The SI program targets traditionally difficult academic courses and provides regularly scheduled, out-of-class, peer-facilitated sessions. SI does not identify high-risk students, but rather high-risk classes.
The SI leaders present an appropriate model of thinking, organization and mastery of the discipline. SI leaders attend all class sessions, take notes, read all assigned materials, and conduct three or more 50-minute SI sessions a week. SI sessions integrate how to learn with what to learn. Students who attend SI discover appropriate application of study strategies, e.g. note taking, graphic organization, questioning techniques, vocabulary and test preparation, as they review content material.
Other Academic Skills Center services include:
- Tutor Office - assigns tutors for lower-division courses
- Learning Laboratory - offers computer-assisted instruction in several areas of study and in selected courses
If you have questions about this service, contact Ross Murray at murray@augsburg.edu.
