Conferring with the TA on the importance of certain issues, how they should be approached with the students. By helping to identify students who would be good TA's in the future. There are many beneficial residuals that can develop from conducting a program such as this. Kim Wilcox and Carol Koehler had this to say about Supplemental Instruction in an article they wrote for Metropolitan Universities, Summer 1996. Supplemental Instruction contributes to the larger discussion of academic support by casting remediation issues in a new light - that of critical thinking.
SI is a field-based program that picks up where the classroom lecture leaves off.
For students it is an intelligent response to the contemporary problem of information overload. Supplemental Instruction increases the opportunity of helping students learn some of these valuable skills. This is accomplished in two very effective ways. By employing the most creative students to act as teacher assistants as well as role models. They will be able to demonstrate for the class, mechanisms they employ to understand material, retain it, extrapolate new ideas from it and gain ownership over information so that it will be useful to them at any time in the future.