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Supplemental Instruction (SI) Program | Session Plan Template

SI Leader: ___Thomas Robbins____ Session Date: __9/29/2020___

Course: ___Phil 114 (001,002)____ Instructor: __Dr. Michael Dickson___

Attendance Goal: ___3-5_____

How many students do you anticipate having in this session?

Session Objective:
What does the group most need to accomplish in this session?

Introduce and practice constraint satisfaction problems.

Session Plan
Why will this Where/When
Content/Skill to be Estimated strategy/process was this topic
Strategy Used
covered Time be effective for taught? (Ex:
this content? Lecture 9/23)
Opening Activity/Introduction
A review of
satisfiability.
This semantic Last two
Opening Activity 5 Big Picture
property is weeks
essential for
this chapter.
Main Activity/Activities
An overview of
how to
symbolize
Symbolizing Group Discussion, constraints. Monday
20
Constraints Practice Problems This will be
necessary to
solve constraint
problems.
Quick pause
Q&A /
Clear Point, Muddy for questions to N/A
Understanding 5
Point check for
Check
understanding.
An example
problem to
show how these Monday
Practice 15 Step by Step sorts of
questions are
answered for
the quiz.
Closing Activity – Check for Understanding

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or other preparation materials with this session plan.
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Supplemental Instruction (SI) Program | Session Plan Template

A look ahead at
why this might
be useful and N/A
Closing Activity 5 Look Ahead
what some of
its limitations
are.

Resources:

Intro to Formal Logic Textbook: c. 5

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or other preparation materials with this session plan.