POGIL eLearning Events
Check the calendar for more information on all of these 2021-2022 events.
Facilitators Joyce Easter (Virginia Wesleyan University) and Susan Richardson (The POGIL Project) will guide participant teams as they consider the central importance of learning objectives in POGIL classrooms. In this virtual session, participants will work together to:
Identify key characteristics of quality learning objectives.
Strategize the use of quality learning objectives in communicating expectations, creating appropriate assessments, and selecting instructional activities.
Facilitators will guide participants through the process of converting a cookbook lab to one that has greater inquiry.
In this session, facilitators will discuss the characteristics of a Robust Model, and work through several examples of making a not-so- robust model into something that can be used in a POGIL activity.
In this web-based session, our facilitators will introduce you to the benefits of using Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning in your classroom including the roles used in POGIL classrooms; the Learning Cycle and how it applies to POGIL activities; and the process skills students develop in a POGIL classroom.
Most educators have a lot of practice writing questions to assess student knowledge, but writing questions that guide students toward the invention of a concept is one of the most challenging elements of creating a quality POGIL Activity. In this session, facilitators Kristi Deaver (Ankeny Centennial High School) and Tricia Shepherd (University of Pittsburgh) will provide writing tips and insights based on their experiences as both author and author coach. Participants will work in teams through examples illustrating the process of writing questions that guide students to construct meaning through exploration, concept invention and application.
As POGIL practitioners, we strive to maintain a firm commitment to the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. In this session, POGIL practitioners from across various disciplines and levels of teaching will facilitate a discussion among participants using examples from lived experiences that provide opportunity to explore the nuances and complexities of DEIB challenges we face in the classroom. Facilitators Sidney Boquiren (Adelphi University), Caroline Lehman (Head Royce School), Kristi Mardis (Chicago State University), Mario Nakazawa (Berea College), and Laura Parmentier (Beloit College) will introduce resources that can be of support and assistance.