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Class visits
We’d love to introduce Academic Coaching to your class in a 5-10 minute, customizable orientation, which you may schedule at any time during the semester. Email coaching@ubalt.edu to request a class visit.
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In-class workshops
Academic Success provides workshops on common study skills concerns that can be delivered in your class at any time. Topics include:
- SMART Goal Setting
- Time Management
- Critical Reading
- Note Taking
- Exam Taking
- Learning Styles
If you would like us to adapt a workshop for your course or create a new workshop based on specific student needs, please let us know at least two weeks in advance. To schedule a workshop, please contact coaching@ubalt.edu.
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Supplemental Instruction
Supplemental Instruction (SI), created at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is an academic assistance program that utilizes peer-assisted study sessions. SI sessions are regularly scheduled, informal review sessions in which students compare notes, discuss readings, develop organizational tools, and predict test items. Students learn how to integrate course content and study skills while working together. The sessions are facilitated by “SI leaders”, students who have previously done well in the course and who attend all class lectures, take notes, and act as model students.
Purpose:- To increase retention within targeted historically difficult courses
- To improve student grades in targeted historically difficult courses
- To increase the graduation rates of students
SI is a free service offered to all students in a targeted course. SI is a non remedial approach to learning as the program targets high-risk courses rather than high-risk students. All students are encouraged to attend SI sessions, as it is a voluntary program. Students with varying levels of academic preparedness and diverse backgrounds participate. There is no remedial stigma attached to SI since the program targets high-risk courses rather than high-risk students.
For further information please contact coaching@ubalt.edu or see UMKC’s page.