The curriculum of SI focuses on learning strategies necessary in order to be successful in the course. Sessions are lead by an SI leader trained to facilitate collaborative student efforts that may include reading the text, note taking, memorizing, and predicting and answering test questions. The SI leader attends all class sessions and functions as a peer leader. SI sessions have now been offered to accompany a total of 28 course sections encompassing over 3,900 students. The second addition to our program was the offering of adjunct courses.
Adjunct courses offer learning strategies instruction to students coregistered in content courses.
Although adjunct courses can be designed for regularly admitted students, our first adjunct course was offered to upper-level developmental studies students in lieu of a reading comprehension requirement. Our second adjunct course was paired with college algebra . Former developmental mathematics students, students who had made an F or W previously in college algebra, and other students interested in assistance voluntarily enrolled in this course. The curriculum of our adjunct courses focuses on learning strategies specific to the discipline and metacognitive awareness activities. Overall, the curriculum of adjunct courses emphasizes application of learning strategies to the content area course material with modeling as the essential teaching technique.