LANCASTER, Pa. — The POGIL Project, a national not-for-profit organization that disseminates its unique student-centered pedagogy at the secondary and college levels and provides professional development opportunities for instructors, has named two educators to three-year terms on its Steering...
In honor of The POGIL Project's 20th anniversary, we present a list of 20 Terrific Facts about the Number 20 1 There are a total of 20 different possible moves that you can legally play at the beginning of a game of chess. 2 The number 20 is also sometimes called a score, particularly in...
LANCASTER, Pa. — The POGIL Project, a national not-for-profit organization that disseminates its unique student-centered pedagogy at the secondary and college levels and provides professional development opportunities for instructors, has named two educators to three-year terms on its Steering...
Lancaster, PA — The POGIL Project has named three veteran POGIL practitioners recipients of the POGIL Impact Award. This year, the team of Andy Bressette (Berry College) and Suzanne Ruder (Virginia Commonwealth University), and Mare Sullivan (Seattle Pacific University) earned the honor. The...
Creating an Environment Where Students Can Learn Dan Libby, a retired chemistry professor from Moravian College, used active learning pedagogy in his classroom long before POGIL ever existed. He taught organic chemistry using "learning cycles," primarily because he wanted to move his students...
After a few years of putting my chemical engineering degree to good use, I couldn’t help but feel that the way I was spending my time was not benefiting or contributing to society. I kept going back to my college years when I had tutored chemistry and enjoyed supporting students in their learning...
Thursday November 11th, 2020 I am on a career vision quest. Since I was old enough to work, I’ve had several different jobs. If you ask my dad, I was old enough to work at the age of 8 (is hauling wood and clearing out the chicken coop considered child labor?) But, let’s start with my first job...
POGIL FAQs What is POGIL? POGIL is based on the biology of learning (e.g. Zull, 2002), and has been developed and validated over the last 15 years, primarily in chemistry education (e.g. Moog, Spencer, 2008). In POGIL, teams of learners (typically 3-4) work on scripted inquiry activities and...
Organic Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry Ruder, Suzanne M. Lancaster, PA: The POGIL Project; Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2021. Print ISBN: 978-1-792-4907-12 EBook ISBN: 9781792490712 320 pages Print: $40 EBook: $32 About the Book Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) is a...
The POGIL project recently awarded its first SPUR+ grant (see https://pogil.org/about-the-pogil-project for more information) to Rob Whitnell (Guilford College) and Ashley Mahoney (Bethel University) for their SPIRAL: Strengthening the use of Process, Inquiry, Reflection and Application in the...