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Supplemental Instruction - Academic Support Leader

Employment Type	Student Employee
Hourly Rate	$13.50

Special Note: All students are required to read the BU Student Employment Policy prior to submitting an application. All Federal Work-Study students should read the program rules and regulations located at http://www.belmont.edu/sfs/employment/fws.html

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Supplemental Instruction is an academic support service targeting historically challenging courses, in which SI Leaders coordinate peer-assisted sessions to develop greater understanding of course material and gain a greater grasp of the course itself. SI attempts to integrate the “what to learn” with the “how to learn”, emphasizing study skills and model student behavior as well as course content. These sessions are not remedial; rather, they enhance the material that is covered in traditional classroom meetings.

Requirements include:

1.    SI leaders will attend all course meetings and model good student behavior (by taking notes, reading material, etc). (20%)
   

2.    SI leaders will be responsible for creating content for 2-3 out of class sessions per week (totaling 3 hours) that review course material and show application of various learning strategies and may hold extra sessions in preparation for exam time. (25%)
   

3.    SI leaders will be responsible for coordinating aforementioned sessions and communicating those to the classes that they cover. (15%)
   

4.    SI leaders will have office hours (totaling 3 hours per week) where students can ask questions and where leaders can plan for SI sessions. (20%)
   

5.    SI leaders will have biweekly meetings with the SI supervisor to go over different study strategies, train, and review how sessions are going. (5%)
   

6.    SI leaders will have biweekly meetings with professors to review major topics to cover and provide feedback about students’ difficulties.  (5%)
   

7.    SI leaders will create occasional video content for their respective discipline. (5%)
   

8.    SI leaders will collect data for evaluating the SI program. (5%)
   

Required Qualifications

• Must have knowledge of their content area, and must have a recommendation from a professor teaching the course
• Must be able to communicate effectively with students, professors, and learning support staff
• Does not need to have an education background, but must be willing to lead group discussion and consider study skills
• Must be organized to work with setting sessions with students, as well as meeting with professors and the SI coordinator

Required Education

Must be enrolled as a student at Belmont University. The student must have taken the particular subject they are assisting, and they must have an instructor recommendation for that course.

Required Experience

No experience required