The PALS (Peer Assisted Learning and Supplemental Instruction) program aims to enhance students' understanding of course materials and improve learning strategies through regular peer-facilitated review sessions. Students are encouraged to identify their learning needs, collaborate with peers, and engage actively in their educational journey. The document emphasizes the importance of curiosity, collaboration, and effective learning practices, as well as the role of motivation in achieving academic success.

1. PALSI Student Orientation
Peer Assisted Learning and Supplemental Instruction (PALSI)
Hokling Cheung
Office of Education Development and General
Education (EDGE)
September 2011

2. reason for existing.”
~
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
- Albert Einstein

3. “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
- George Bernard Shaw

4. Who are you?
Why are you here?
What is PALSI or peer
assisted learning? Why?
Please introduce yourselves to at least TWO
NEW friends. Tell them what you expect to gain
from this peer assisted learning scheme, PALSI?

5. Intended Learning Outcomes
Through the peer assisted learning scheme, PALSI students are expected to be
able to
• identify their own learning needs &
interests
• apply effective learning
attitude, strategies and skills
• collaborate with other learning
partners to learn more actively and
reflectively
• explain the expectations and outcomes
of your own programme and courses We will examine how well
these outcomes are
• identify opportunities for discovery
achieved? It will be
and innovation concerted efforts from every
member to achieve these
outcomes.

6. PALSI is a peer-assisted learning scheme using Supplemental
Instruction (SI) model. PALSI aims at enhancing students'
understanding in course materials and improve students’ overall
learning and reasoning skills.
Regularly scheduled, out-of-class
and peer-facilitated review
sessions are open to all students
taking the PALSI courses.

7. ?
Peer Assisted Learning
Senior year students No spoon feeding! How does learning happen?
who have performed PALSI Leaders should What is effective learning?
well in the department design and arrange the Consider
core courses. Not sessions to encourage Content knowledge
necessary experts. They active, collaborative Intellectual thinking skills
should possess and reflective learning. Learning needs & attitude
• content knowledge Learning strategies and skills
• positive attitude Deep learning
• effective learning
strategies
Maricopa Community Colleges, 1997
Miller et al, 2006

8. Why peer assisted learning?
What can I gain from
learning with the PALSI Leaders
and other PALSI Students?

9. This is a
This is a
snake.
tree.
This is a
faded leaf.
This is a cave.
This is a high
mountain.
This is a
cave.

10. Image source: http://www.bioresonance-technologies.com/

11. The Four Levels of Competence
Level 4: Unconscious Competence
Level 3: Conscious Competence
Level 2: Conscious Incompetence
Level 1: Unconscious Incompetence
Manage Train Learn, 2011
Mindtools, 2011

12. 6 Intellectual Thinking Skills & Learning Outcomes
CREATING
EVALUATING
ANALYZING
APPLYING
UNDERSTANDING
REMEMBERING
Revised Bloom Taxonomy, Anderson L., 1990

13. Image source: http://sunflowerexperiment.com/FAQs.html

14. Why active, reflective and collaborative
learning?
passive recipients of effective learning active thinking, meaning
knowledge making & reasoning
extrinsic source of motivation intrinsic
“I have to learn it or I “I am really interested in
will fail the course.” this subject.”
abstract, academic & subject & task authentic, practical &
theoretic contextualised
insensitive, indifferent relationship & atmosphere respective, caring &
& stressful delighted
Lower thinking order demand & challenge Higher thinking order
e.g. e.g.
remembering, underst application, analysis, eva
anding luation, problem solving
& creation

16. Image source: http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/fishing

17. Learning Styles
Archway School, 2011

18. Learning And Study Strategies Inventories
SKILL WILL Self-Regulation
Students' learning Students' receptivity to Students manage, or self-
strategies, skills and learning new regulate and control the whole
thought processes related information, their learning process through using
to identifying, acquiring attitudes and interests in their time effectively, focusing
and constructing meaning college, their their attention and maintaining
for important new diligence, self- their concentration over
information, ideas and discipline, and willingness time, checking to see if they have
procedures, and how they to exert the effort met the learning demands for a
prepare for and necessary to successfully class, an assignment or a
demonstrate their new complete academic test, and using study supports
knowledge on tests or requirements, and the such as review sessions, tutors or
other evaluative degree to which they special features of a textbook.
procedures. worry about their
academic performance.
H&H Publishing, 2011

19. Motivation
Two typical ways to motivate people.
What are the differences between these two types of
motivation?

20. RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJcl
There are many reasons to motivate
people. Find out what you believe and
value. Motivate yourself and stay
Is it true that the higher the highly motivated until you achieve
reward, the better your goals.
performance?

21. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
1. Be proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
4. Think win-win
5. Seek first to understand, then
to be understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the saw
Image source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_7_Ha S.R. Covey (1989)
bits_of_Highly_Effective_People.jpg Image source: www.change-management-coach.com

22. Time Management?
Image source: http://justinlim.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/of-rocks-pebbles-and-sand-who-are-the-rocks-in-your-life/

23. “Things I wish I had known in my first year.”

24. “The 21 Things Every First Year College Student
Should Do”

25. An Old Farmer & His Four Sons
I am too old So he sent his sons, one by
and it’s about one, to the farmland at
time … different time.
Which son
could inherit
my farmland?

26. This is totally hopeless. There is no single trace of life.

27. Wow. Everything buds!
There are so many opportunities.

28. Why do I have to bend myself and keep sweating
here?
The work is too hard and is never ending.

29. Wow. What a
blessing this
farmland is!
There are so many
fruits and crops
waiting for us.

31. It was but the same farmland.
Why the four sons would have so
different reactions to it?
My Sons, make good use of this
farmland together. There will be
moments of hardship to make
you feel hopeless and exhausted.
However if you four can work it
out together and share, you will
see the abundance of
opportunity and blessing that it
can bring to you.
Special thanks to Stan Zimny
for granting us the permission to use these four photos dated 2 September 2011.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stanzim/400760551/

32. It is a knowledge hub where you can
collaborate with a lot of masters, peers
and friends through different activities
and make use of resources and services
to facilitate your own journey of
knowledge, discovery and innovation.
Cherish your learning buddies!
World rankings
110 QS World University Rankings 2011
15 QS Asian University Rankings 2011

33. Make good use of the PALSI Scheme
• Come to EVERY session
• Do ask questions
• Learn how to fish
• Contribute!
• Be friendly
• Be open minded
• Enjoy!

34. Preparing EACH session
Content & Activity
Arrive at the session early
Greetings
Agenda
Conclusion of the session

35. Preparing the 1st session
Content & Activity
About me & you
Learning
PALSI scheme and sessions
Conclusion

36. Anyone who stops learning is
old, whether at twenty or eighty.
- Henry Ford It is not hard to learn more. What is
hard is to unlearn when you discover
yourself wrong.
When the student is - Martin H. Fischer
ready, the master
appears.
- Buddhist Proverb
In everyone's life, at some
time, our inner fire goes
out. It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another
human being. We should all
be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

37. References
Anderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. R. (Eds.). (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching and assessing: A revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of
educational objectives: Complete edition, New York : Longman.
Covey, S. R. (1989). The seven habits of highly effective people. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Felder, R.M. and Silverman, L.K. (1988) "Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education“, Engr. Education, 78(7), 674-681 (1988).
Retrieved on August 26, 2011, from http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/LS-1988.pdf
H&H Publishing. (2011). Retrieved on 6 September 2011, from http://www.hhpublishing.com/index.html
Lim, J. (2006). Of Stone, Pebbles and Sand. What are the Stones in Your Life? Retrieved on 6 September 2011, from
http://justinlim.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/of-rocks-pebbles-and-sand-who-are-the-rocks-in-your-life/
Merriam-Webster. (2011). Learner’s Dictionary. Retrieved on 6 September 2011, from
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/fishing
Miller, V. , Oldfield E. & Murtagh Y. (2006). “Leader Development Handbook”, Peer Assisted Study Sessions, the University of
Queensland. Retrieved on 24 August 2011, from http://www.science.uq.edu.au/pass/index.html?page=138152
Manage Train Learn. (2011). “Learning a Skill: The Conscious-Competence Ladder”. Retrieved on 6 September 2011, from
http://www.managetrainlearn.com/page/conscious-competence-ladder
Maricopa Community Colleges. (1997). “learning@maricopa.edu”. Retrieved on 24 August 2011, from
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learning/pubs/oct97/li_multi.html
Mindtools.com. (2011) Learning Styles, Understanding your learning preference http://www.mindtools.com/mnemlsty.html
Oregon Department of Human Services. (2008). DHS Training Standards Guide – Version 1.0. Retrieved on 24 August 2011, from
http://www.dhs.state.or.us/training/ssp/docs/TrainingStandards05-1408.pdf
Pastore, R. (2003). Principles of Teaching. Retrieved on 6 September 2011, from http://teacherworld.com/potdale.html
Quote Garden. (2011). Quotations about Learning. Retrieved on 6 September 2011, from http://www.quotegarden.com/learning.html
Schaller, D. (2004) Practicing What We Teach: how learning theory can guide development of online educational activities. Eduweb.
Retrieved from August 26, 2011, from http://www.eduweb.com/practice_teach_full.html

38. To Learn & To Serve
Ivan Leung
Year 2
Accountancy
PALSI Student, 2010-11
PALSI Leader, 2011-12

39. DON’T be SHY
ASK questions actively
Mandy Chan
Year 2
Accountancy
PALSI Student, 2010-11
PALSI Leader, 2011-12