Activity Writing, Classroom Facilitation, and Lab Tracks available
On Days 2 and 3, participants will follow a series of sessions (a track) based on their content area interest: Activity Writing, Classroom Facilitation, or Implementing POGIL in the Lab (where offered).
This session is designed for those with limited or no previous exposure to POGIL. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in POGIL activities, observe facilitation strategies firsthand, learn about POGIL classroom implementation, and discuss common barriers to implementation.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
This session promotes discussion of issues and potential solutions related to the creation and changing of student teams. This session will work best when there are some people who have experience with the topic so that they can share their experiences and also the issues that they have difficulty with.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
There has been much talk in the education community about implicit bias in classrooms. At The POGIL Project, we believe that POGIL pedagogy can improve achievement for ALL students. This session will help you reflect upon your POGIL practice as a classroom facilitator and give you tools to use to counteract implicit bias from yourself and your students.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
This workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to improve their facilitation skills through participating in, observing, and reflecting on the student experience in a POGIL classroom via a classroom experience as facilitated by a practiced POGIL facilitator. Participants will fully experience the facilitator's classroom as students or observers and encounter strategies for starting, conducting, and closing class as they establish a successful POGIL learning environment. The facilitation will then be analyzed with ample opportunity for discussion.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
This session will introduce the basic concepts and principles of the POGIL laboratory. Participants will experience a simulated POGIL laboratory experiment and examine its components and structure.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
There is no single way to implement POGIL -- each time there are unique characteristics that can influence how particular goals are achieved. Facilitating a POGIL classroom effectively involves more than student groups and collaborative activities; it requires careful planning and effective classroom management through reflective facilitation techniques. This workshop is designed to provide participants with an introduction to facilitating POGIL activities. Through this experience, participants will reflect on how facilitation can enhance or interfere with student learning, as well as how facilitation strategies can be critical in the development of student process skills.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
This session is an introduction to the essential characteristics and structure of high-quality POGIL activities. After completing this session, participants will be prepared to attend intermediate-level sessions on writing activities.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
This workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to take the first steps in writing a POGIL activity. In this session, participants will learn the role of learning objectives in class, how to integrate objectives and assessment questions, and how to identify the content needed for students to accomplish the objectives. At the end of the session, participants will have an outline for part of a POGIL activity for their own classroom which they can further develop in later workshop sessions.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
In this session, participants will examine the features common to models that are suitably robust for use in POGIL activities, and gain practice developing a robust model that could be used in a POGIL activity in the participant’s classroom.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
During the Author Coaching sessions, participants will be able to work on writing activities in whatever fashion is most helpful to them. A room or working area will be made available for participants to work individually on writing POGIL activities. At least one writing consultant, or “coach,” will be available for consultations. These consultants will guide participants in assessing their own activities and provide suggestions for improvement. If there are participants who have progressed to advanced stages of authoring, the consultant may introduce (individually or in small groups).
After attending this session, both new and experienced participants will have time to write their own activities and actively participate in discussions about these activities with writing coaches or other authors, if they choose.
In this session, participants will be introduced to the content an process rubrics to assess POGIL learning cycle activities. The rubrics are yet another tool for activity authors, helping them keep in mind the major characteristics of a POGIL activity. Participants will review submitted activities, compare their reviews with others, and work to achieve consensus. Participants will also learn about the POGIL collection endorsement process and how it differs from the authors feedback process.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
In this session, intermediate and advanced POGIL classroom facilitators will have an opportunity to experience and consider effective tools for improving students' process skills. Time will be provided for participants to share their own best practices.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
In this session, participants will consider how professional skills (teamwork, communication, and critical thinking) can be enhanced when assessment and feedback on the development of these skills are provided. One way these skills are developed in active learning environments is through student-student interactions. Monitoring these interactions provides a means to incorporate the assessment of process skills into regular classroom practice.
In this session, participants will:
In this session, participants will have the opportunity to explore and use rubrics for process skills in student written work. An activity and actual student written work will be assessed using the rubrics. The activity chosen allows participants to use the rubrics without much barrier of content knowledge.
In this session, participants will:
This workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to improve their facilitation skills through facilitating, observing, and/or reflecting on the student experience in a POGIL classroom. In this session, a sub-set of participants will each facilitate an activity of their choice. All participants will have the opportunity to serve as an observer and a student during the session.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
Effective facilitation requires attention to what is going on in the classroom as well as a set of strategies one can use to respond to a variety of classroom situations. This workshop will help participants consider various situations that can impact effectiveness of responses within the classroom, including: disparities in student pacing, dysfunctional student dynamics, and other barriers to student learning in the classroom.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
Participants begin the lab track by experiencing an actual POGIL laboratory experiment from the perspective of a student. The experiment can be used at the introductory or more advanced courses in physical science, and includes an emphasis on developing questions and experimental methods.
In this session, participants will:
This session explores the concepts and principles of the POGIL laboratory experience. Participants will examine the components and structure of the experiment, compare them with the traditional laboratory experience, and correlate them to the Learning Cycle.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
This session focuses on the challenges of implementing and facilitating a POGIL experiment with students.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
This session explores the structure of a POGIL laboratory experiment in greater depth. Participants will work through the key elements of POGIL experiment, including the importance of an Instructor's Handbook. This session also introduces the POGIL experiment screening rubric, which can assist faculty in designing their own experiments.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
This session will scaffold how to write, test, and implement a POGIL experiment using a PhET simulation.
After attending both parts of this session, participants will be able to:
In this session, participants will begin to write their own POGIL experiments. Participants are encouraged to bring their own ideas for an experiment they want to transform from traditional to POGIL. Working with a team is strongly encouraged.
After attending both parts of this session, participants will be able to: