January 19, 2012
POGIL Project Announces Summer Regional Workshop Lineup
LANCASTER, Pa. — Ready to sharpen your POGIL skills or simply learn how to incorporate more student-centered learning in your classroom? The POGIL Project is now accepting applications for its 2012 slate of six workshops, designed to inspire and strengthen your teaching.
Whether you are an experienced POGIL practitioner, new to the methods, or somewhere in between, these workshops will provide a wealth of opportunities to gain new insights, grow professionally, and take home tangible skills. In addition to a sequence of workshop sessions specifically designed for those new to POGIL, there are also a number of new components to support those with previous POGIL experience. Participants will not only learn how to be a more effective classroom facilitator, but also have the opportunity to practice writing their own activities and to learn how to give quality feedback.
"These workshops will bring together instructors who are passionate about creating effective student-centered learning environments, and will help them develop the tools to create those environments in their own classrooms," said Project Director Rick Moog. An important component of each workshop will be a poster session at which attendees can share their experiences with any aspect of student-centered learning. All interested attendees will be encouraged to participate in these sessions.
The 2012 schedule of workshops is as follows:
July 10-12
· Northeast Region - Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Conn.
· Northwest Region – Seattle University, Seattle, Wash.
· South Central Region – University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
· Southwest Region – Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah
July 23-25
· Great Lakes Region –University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.
· Southeast Region – Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
To apply for workshops, please visit the links above, located on the POGIL website at www.pogil.org. Workshop fee is $195 (registration, materials, lunches/dinners). On-campus housing for two nights is provided for an additional $75 and includes two accompanying breakfasts. Space is limited, and early applications are encouraged.
For an additional fee of $430, participants at the POGIL Regional Workshops can choose to receive one graduate credit through Lebanon Valley College's Master of Science Education program (http://www.lvc.edu/mse/index.aspx). Session attendance and out-of-class assignment requirements will apply. Complete details, including registration directions and course fees, will be sent following your acceptance to the POGIL Regional Workshops.
This year's workshop sessions will include:
· Introduction to POGIL: The Fundamentals
· Introduction to POGIL: POGIL Labs
· Writing POGIL Activities: How Are POGIL Activities Structured?
· Writing POGIL Activities: Crafting Quality Learning Objectives
· Writing POGIL Activities: Using Robust Models
· Writing POGIL Activities: Author Coaching
· Assessing POGIL Activities: Providing and Receiving Quality Feedback
· Classroom Facilitation: Implementing Activities
· Classroom Facilitation: Improving Your Facilitation Skills
· Classroom Facilitation: Using Polling in Whole Class Discussion
· Classroom Facilitation: Effective Responses in the Classroom
· Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Asking Questions about Student Learning
· Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Assessment Strategies and Project Design
POGIL is an acronym for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning. The method, originating in college chemistry departments in 1994, has grown to more than 1,000 implementers across a wide range of disciplines in high schools and colleges around the country.
POGIL uses guided inquiry – a learning cycle of exploration, concept invention and application – as the basis for the carefully designed materials that students use to guide them to construct new knowledge. POGIL is also a student-centered strategy in which students working in small groups with individual roles to ensure that all are fully engaged in the learning process.
For more information, contact Marcy Dubroff, Project Coordinator, 717-291-3837, or mdubroff@pogil.org.