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SCHEDULIZER

Jump to Comments 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.

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