Supplemental Instruction is a program that targets traditionally difficult classes by providing trained peer leaders to sit in on the target class that the leader has already successfully completed.

The Supplemental Instruction Leader then holds a minimum of two sessions outside of the regular class structure. During these sessions, the peer leader helps to integrate study skills into the students' study techniques by asking how lecture notes can be improved, how the group could formulate a test question based on the lecture, and how the concepts introduced in a previous lecture tie into the current lecture.

The Supplemental Instruction Leader helps to model good student behavior and good study skills, without doing the homework assigned. By getting the students to work together to verbalize the concepts of the material, predicting the next topics of lecture, connecting the reading to the course lectures and suggesting test taking techniques, the students apply study skills and transfer these good study habits to other courses.

Supplemental Instruction Leaders are recruited and hired at the end of each semester for the targeted courses for the next semester.