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Robin: Space is a concern for us, also. We ususally end up finding the leader a larger room but not
necessarily an ideal room, ie. lecture style. I still find your set-up hard to visualize but the one
thing it probably does, by having to sign up, is create the illusion (or truth) of being very valuable.
Thanks, Barb
Robin Wright wrote:
> Barb,
> We limit SI leaders to 10 clients for their first semester. After the
> first semester, we increase the sign-up to 15 and give the SI leader
> the opportunity to increase it more. We split large groups if the SI
> leader can do it. Some of them don't have time to split the group if
> they have 25 sign up. We have waiting lists as a result. However,
> we encourage attendance by dropping no-shows and adding the
> next person on the list. The SI's usually *end up* open after the
> semester gets going and attendance tapers off. We have the usual
> "30 people showing up before mid-term" stuff and if the SI leader
> feels he/she can handle it, that's fine. Sometimes a person will
> only be able to attend one session per week from the beginning.
> That's OK if that's the arrangement. Usually, the clients attend two
> sessions per week. If the SI leader splits the group, he/she has to
> set up a time for 2 other sessions.
>
> Part of the 10/15 rule is just a matter of classroom size. We only
> have two classrooms in the AARC that hold more than 10 people
> comfortably. Our SI's are well attended in general, especially
> chemistry, math, accounting, and botany. I've been observing this
> week and have had to sit on the floor once. But by this time in the
> semester, most SI leaders have openings.
>
> Is that clear as mud?
>
> Robin
>
> Date sent: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:52:34 -0400
> From: Barbara M Stout <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Drop-in versus appointment
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Send reply to: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Robin: Are you using the UMKC model for SI? Your email really caught my
> > eye! Why would you drop an SI no show and why do you have a waiting list?
> > I'm curious because it seems so far from the traditional model of SI being
> > free and voluntary....students can drop in and out as they wish. We have
> > students come to SI 1 or 2 times or students that come to 3 sessions a
> > week for the entire semester. If the groups begin to get too large we add
> > a session so the SI leader has 4 sessions a week. Are you bound to limited
> > sessions by leaders schedules or money constraints?
> > Of interest to some of you we are beginning to see more and more students
> > that attend SI more than once a week...is that common at your school? Barb
> >
> > Barbara M. Stout
> > Supplemental Instructional Specialist
> > University of Pittsburgh
> > 311 Wm. Pitt Union
> > Pittsburgh, PA 15260
> > 1-412-648-7920
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Robin Wright wrote:
> >
> > > This is always a dilemma. Here at SFA, it really depends on the
> > > program. We have Math and Writing walk-in AND appointment
> > > tutoring. We have Content Studies (everything else in the core
> > > curriculum) by appointment only. We drop a client at the first no-
> > > show (unless they call) and the tutor calls the waiting list to try to
> > > fill the appointment. One of the advantages of having a campus
> > > where all first year students live in dorms is that tutors can often
> > > find someone who will run right over. We also drop SI no-shows
> > > and the SI leader is responsible for calling the waiting list to try to
> > > fill that slot for the next session. We almost always have waiting
> > > lists early in the semester, but we get through them pretty fast.
> > > This keeps the cost per contact hour pretty stable.
> > >
> > > Robin Wright
> > >
> > >
> > > Date sent: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:46:28 -0400
> > > From: Craig Andres <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Subject: Re: Drop-in versus appointment
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Send reply to: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals
> > > <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Organization: Kettering University (formerly GMI)
> > >
> > > That is the give and take. If you use drop-in
> > > tutoring, you have committed your tutor to be
> > > there at that time and of course they should get
> > > paid. There are times when the tutors have no one
> > > to help, and other times they have half a dozen
> > > people they are helping. I try to beef up the
> > > times I know will be busy, which is usually at
> > > night.
> > >
> > > Kenneth Zech wrote:
> > > >
> > > > RE: LouAnn's question:
> > > >
> > > > "My question is what do other schools do when students don't show up for their tutoring appoi
> ntments. Are the tutors paid anyway? I would like some input also in this matter. How are tutors
> paid who work at drop-in centers? Are they paid for just sitting there or only for the time they
>
> > > spend helping someone?"
> > > >
> > > > Most of our tutoring is done by appointment. When a student doesn't show up in 10 minutes, t
> he tutor has the choice of leaving and we will pay for the first
> > > hour, or the tutor can stay and listen to or view one of tutor training audio- or video-tapes
> (each with an accompanying exercise) and
> > > be paid for the full hour. The tutor doesn't lose a work hour, and we are able to accomplish a
> little more training.
> > > >
> > > > Our drop-in tutors are paid whether anyone shows up or not. Most of the time (95%) there is
> traffic for the tutor because we schedule drop-in during hours that experience tells us should be b
> usy. If we see a pattern of low use over a period of time we will cancel that hour and try another
> .
> > > >
> > > > Kenneth Zech
> > > > Instructor, Tutorial Services
> > > > Reedley College
> > > > Reedley, California
> > > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > --
> > > Craig Andres
> > > Tutor Program Coordinator
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > > (810)-762-9642
> > > Kettering University
> > > (Continuing the GMI heritage)
> > >
> > > "With willing hands and open minds, the future
> > > will be greater than the most fantastic story you
> > > can write.." Charles Kettering.
> > >
> > >
> > > "Education must not simply teach work--it must teach life."
> > > --W.E.B. DuBois
> > > Robin Wright
> > > Director of the Academic Assistance and Resource Ctr.
> > > Stephen F. Austin State University
> > > (409)468-1463
> > >
>
> "Education must not simply teach work--it must teach life."
> --W.E.B. DuBois
> Robin Wright
> Director of the Academic Assistance and Resource Ctr.
> Stephen F. Austin State University
> (409)468-1463
--
Barbara M. Stout
Supplemental Instructional Specialist
Learning Skills Center
The University of Pittsburgh
311 Wm. Pitt Union
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7920
[log in to unmask]
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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