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Supplemental Instruction offers tutoring to empower students

Last updated on February 3, 2015

Lauren Cieler// Staff Writer

Volunteer State Community College offers a program called Supplemental Instruction (SI), which helps students who are struggling in certain subjects and cuts studying time in half.

SI forms study groups to encourage students to become model figures for other students or the class.

“Students empowering other students to succeed is a great experience to see,” said Toni Murad, Supplemental Instruction coordinator.

These study groups form discussions to help struggling students to see how they can improve in the class.

SI leaders are students who have been successful in these subjects and are hired by their excellence, big hearts, and their ability to communicate with other students.

“When students come back to show her their grades it’s an overwhelming feeling knowing that anything can happen,” said Sandra Hitchcox, an SI aid.

Supplemental Instruction is available at any time to students in classrooms, over Skype, or Sunday sessions.

SI is all over the United States and Vol State is the first college in Tennessee to offer the program.

“I really like the Supplemental Instruction because we talk about our strengths and weaknesses on how we can learn better,” said Courtney Warren, a middle college student. “I will be using SI more for the classes that I will be specifying in so, when I graduate from high school college will be a little easier for me.”

 

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