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Yeah, so, this eeevening, I started going over some of these supplimental instruction surveys I collected. Wait, I haven’t explained this SI stuff on the site, have I?
Basically, I’m the Supplemental Instruction group leader for Mrs. Fortner’s HIST 110 classes (Western Civ <1500). Supplemental Instruction is a program that was set up by the University of Missouri some years ago and is used at more than 600 colleges and universities in the US and abroad as a way to provide all students with study sesions based on the Socratic Method for classes with a historically high D/F/Withdrawl rate. (Wow, that was a long sentence.) I've taken fairly hefty amounts of training for this (6-10 last night, 9-4 today WAUGH), so I think I'll be pretty effective in said facilitation.
Okay, so, anyhow, I’m sitting here tonight with these SI surveys I passed out to her 0945 section (I ran out so I dcouldn’t give any to her 1045 or 1400 classes), and I have nine surveys alone where the student marked their intrested level as ‘very interested (5)’. The method we learned for this stuff works under the assumption that at a normal session there will be fewer than 20 people or so!
I decided to process just these 5ers, and ignore the bulk of the surveys. I figure I’ll probably get another twenty interest-level-five surveys on monday, so working with these people’s schedules alone will be difficult enough. I took a blank survey sheet and made tallies on the time chart for every hour block each respondent said would be unattendable. Then I went over in blue highlighter the blocks when I have classes and meetings and can’t hold a session anyhow. Here’s how it looks:
Yeah, so, as you can see, no matter what time they’re gonna happen, there’s gonna be a conflict. Though, what I’m thinking right now is one on Guy Montag at 4 or 5, one on Tuestag at 5 or 6, and one on Thorstag at 5 or 6. I don’t know how the dynamic of the Montag/Tuestag sessions would work, as the class is an MWF and stuff, but we’re supposed to meet three times a week. However, Freitagnachmittag and the weekends are right out (for obvious reasons), and not only does my schedule run through most of the afternoon Mittwoch, but there’s a unspoken no-no of doing school-related stuff on those evenings as there’s usually religious fellowship action going on then.
Anyhow, I just wanted to offer up something today that would be more worthwhile than the previous aborted politcal diatribe.
Basically, I’m the Supplemental Instruction group leader for Mrs. Fortner’s HIST 110 classes (Western Civ <1500). Supplemental Instruction is a program that was set up by the University of Missouri some years ago and is used at more than 600 colleges and universities in the US and abroad as a way to provide all students with study sesions based on the Socratic Method for classes with a historically high D/F/Withdrawl rate. (Wow, that was a long sentence.) I've taken fairly hefty amounts of training for this (6-10 last night, 9-4 today WAUGH), so I think I'll be pretty effective in said facilitation.
Okay, so, anyhow, I’m sitting here tonight with these SI surveys I passed out to her 0945 section (I ran out so I dcouldn’t give any to her 1045 or 1400 classes), and I have nine surveys alone where the student marked their intrested level as ‘very interested (5)’. The method we learned for this stuff works under the assumption that at a normal session there will be fewer than 20 people or so!
I decided to process just these 5ers, and ignore the bulk of the surveys. I figure I’ll probably get another twenty interest-level-five surveys on monday, so working with these people’s schedules alone will be difficult enough. I took a blank survey sheet and made tallies on the time chart for every hour block each respondent said would be unattendable. Then I went over in blue highlighter the blocks when I have classes and meetings and can’t hold a session anyhow. Here’s how it looks:
Yeah, so, as you can see, no matter what time they’re gonna happen, there’s gonna be a conflict. Though, what I’m thinking right now is one on Guy Montag at 4 or 5, one on Tuestag at 5 or 6, and one on Thorstag at 5 or 6. I don’t know how the dynamic of the Montag/Tuestag sessions would work, as the class is an MWF and stuff, but we’re supposed to meet three times a week. However, Freitagnachmittag and the weekends are right out (for obvious reasons), and not only does my schedule run through most of the afternoon Mittwoch, but there’s a unspoken no-no of doing school-related stuff on those evenings as there’s usually religious fellowship action going on then.
Anyhow, I just wanted to offer up something today that would be more worthwhile than the previous aborted politcal diatribe.
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I wonder if I could do this at Purdue for math classes. Sounds pretty good.