Written by Alexandra McClain<\/p>\n
UPDATE (March 30):<\/strong>Junior Political Science major Jessica Klein, niece of Lori Klein, decided to continue free Supplemental Instructionsessions next year after Stephanie O’Brian graduates in May.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Although funding was recently cut for the Supplemental Istruction program at Harding, one student instructor decided to continue SI study sessions without pay.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Senior Stephanie O’Brian chose to keep teaching SI sessions for American National Government for free in order to help students.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Supplemental Instruction provides tutoring to students in courses with a high number of D’s, F’s and withdraws, mainly American National Government, International Relations and Chemistry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Basically, sessions provide the opportunity for students in historically difficult classes to come together and master the material, as well as learn the study skills necessary to succeed in each class.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “When I found out no courses would have SI this semester, my heart truly broke. I cried, and I am not a crier,” O’Brian said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n O’Brian began teaching SI sessions during the fall of her sophomore year after taking American National Government with Lori Klein.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n On national average, students who attend sessions usually score half a letter grade higher than students who do not. In O’Brian’s sessions, there is an entire letter grade difference. The national average is 5-10 students in each SI session. However, O’Brian’s sessions usually have around 20.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “My record is 69 students. Some were sitting on the floor. It was a good and hectic time,” O’Brian said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n O’Brian has had to scale back the number of sessions per week from three to one.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “I believe the professors felt guilty for me doing that many sessions with no pay,” O’Brian said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n O’Brian said she has met many of her friends in the sessions she’s led and feels a general sense of accomplishment when she helps students raise their grades.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “The decision to lead sessions without pay was easy, a true no brainer,” O’Brian said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Alexandra McClain UPDATE (March 30):Junior Political Science major Jessica Klein, niece of Lori Klein, decided to continue free Supplemental Instructionsessions next year after Stephanie O’Brian graduates in May.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hurricane-florence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}