Welcome to the Supplemental Instruction / Academic Tutoring!

 Mission Statement

The Mission of our tutoring Program is to empower students academically through assisance of multiple subject areas and thus strengthen their learning and critical thinking skills and help them attain their graduation and career goals.

What is supplemental Instruction?

Supplemental instruction (SI) is a program that targets traditionally difficult courses-such as mathematics, biology, chemistry, and history, those that have a high rate of D or F grades and withdrawals and provides regularly scheduled, out-of-class, peer facilitated sessions.

Goals of Supplemental instruction.

  • Improve Student performance
  • Increase continued enrollment
  • Improve learning Skills
  • Thinking and reasoning
  • Responsibility
  • Reflection

Benefits

  • Earn High Course Grades.
  •  Learn how to be a more active learner rather than a passive learner.
  • Develop better critical thinking skills and use these skills in orther activities
  • Avoid retaking the course.
  • Save time and money.
  • Timely graduation.

Free!!! Services to enrolled TSTC students

Academic Tutoring/Supplemental instruction is avaliable each semester in the Student Success Office to help students improve their academic performance for courses in which they may have difficulty. The tutors must have gotten courses an "A" in the course he/she wants to tutor and must be an overall exemplary student maintaining a qualifying overall GPA of 3.0.

Should you have any questions on services or becoming a tutor, please contact Linda Barron, coordinator of Supplemental Instruction at 956-364-4170 or stop by the Student Success Office room "D" 121.
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