The POGIL Podcast
Education Podcasts
“The POGIL Podcast” is a new conversation from The POGIL Project that celebrates innovative educators, both in and out of the classroom. You will hear about what inspired them to become teachers, and how the practice of student-centered education transformed their classrooms and improved outcomes for their students. Learn how they’re innovating outside of the classroom as well! Join us as we “think out loud” with POGIL educators, researchers, and others working to transform teaching and learning for the 21st century. POGIL stands for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning, a student-centered approach that guides students in constructing their own understanding of content and helps them develop important skills such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking, and problem solving. Thanks for joining us and we look forward to bringing you great conversations from The POGIL Podcast!
Location:
United States
Description:
“The POGIL Podcast” is a new conversation from The POGIL Project that celebrates innovative educators, both in and out of the classroom. You will hear about what inspired them to become teachers, and how the practice of student-centered education transformed their classrooms and improved outcomes for their students. Learn how they’re innovating outside of the classroom as well! Join us as we “think out loud” with POGIL educators, researchers, and others working to transform teaching and learning for the 21st century. POGIL stands for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning, a student-centered approach that guides students in constructing their own understanding of content and helps them develop important skills such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking, and problem solving. Thanks for joining us and we look forward to bringing you great conversations from The POGIL Podcast!
Language:
English
Episodes
Talking About Teaching: POGIL and Team Based Learning
4/17/2024
Having students work in teams is at the heart of teaching with POGIL. But POGIL is not the only pedagogy that stresses the use of teams in the classroom. Join Siobhan Julian as she talks with, Neal Carter , professor of political science at BYU-Idaho, and, Shawn Simonson , professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Boise State University, as they compare and contrast POGIL and TBL. For more information, check out the following links. POGIL TBL LearnTBL and ELIPSS .
Duration:00:50:28
Talking About Teaching: A Conversation with SENCER
3/18/2024
How important is our students' science literacy as they become productive citizens in society? In Episode 5 of Season 4 of the POGIL Podcast, Alex Grushow talks with Dr. Matthew Fisher of Saint Vincent College about his work with SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities). Matt incorporates POGIL activities into his classrooms while using an approach that is centered around civic awareness. Join us to see how POGIL and SENCER can work together.
www.POGIL.org www.sencer.net
Duration:00:31:59
Talking About Teaching : Beyond Benign and Green Chemistry Education
2/13/2024
In Episode 4 of Season 4 of the POGIL Podcast, Siobhan Julian talks with Dr. Jonathon Moir and Dr. Alexey Leontyev about approaching chemistry education with an emphasis on green chemistry. Dr. Moir is the Senior Program Manager at the Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community at Beyond Benign. Dr. Leontyev is an assistant professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at North Dakota State University, where he incorporates green chemistry topics into his classrooms and labs. Join us as we explore this approach to teaching chemistry and how it might overlap with POGIL. https://www.beyondbenign.org/ https://www.pogil.org/
Duration:00:34:37
Talking About The Learning Assistant Alliance
1/3/2024
Are you the only practitioner in your classroom? Or, do you have someone to help you with the facilitation? Alex Grushow talks with Laurie Langdon and Valerie Otero of University of Colorado, Boulder and Andrea Van Duzor of Chicago State University about Learning Assistant Alliance. LAA is a program that brings undergraduate students into classrooms as learning assistants, LAs. Find out how POGIL practitioners can use LAs in the classroom. Find out how POGIL is a natural fit with LAA. More information for both LAA and POGIL can be found at learningassistantalliance.org and pogil.org.
Duration:00:40:50
Talking About Teaching - Episode 2 - POGIL and zyBooks
11/21/2023
In Episode 2 of Season 4 of the POGIL Podcast, Alex Grushow talks with Chris Mayfield of the POGIL Project and Jane Snare of zyBooks. Chris and Jane compare and contrast these two different approaches to teaching and find quite a bit of common ground. You can find more information about POGIL at www.pogil.org and zyBooks at zybooks.com .
Duration:00:35:34
News From the Project - Episode 2 - AP Chemistry Offering
11/16/2023
Wayne talks with Laura Trout about the new collection of activities for AP Chemistry which is coming soon from the Project. How soon? Take a listen.
Duration:00:13:22
Talking About Teaching - Episode 1 - POGIL in Different Teaching Environments
10/16/2023
Are you a college teacher who wonders how secondary school teachers use POGIL? Are you a high school or middle school teacher who wonders how college teachers use POGIL? If you answer yes to either of these questions, then we have the podcast for you. Join Alex Grushow as he talks to Laura Parmentier of Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin and Maddy Blain of Whitewater Middle School in Whitewater, Wisconsin about how they implement POGIL in their different learning environments.
Duration:00:33:45
News From The Project - Episode 1 - The Social Hour
10/13/2023
Join us as we add bonus content to Season 4 of the POGIL Podcast. In News From The Project, we will keep you informed about topics of interest to our POGIL community. In this episode, Jennifer Larson of the Networks Group discusses the new direction of the POGIL Social Hour. Feel free to contact Wayne (wayne.pearson@pogil.org) or Jennifer (jlarson2@capital.edu ) for more information.
Duration:00:11:28
Promo for Season 4
9/19/2023
Season 4 of the POGIL Podcast is on the horizon! Join Siobhan, Alex and Wayne as they preview the upcoming season. And, if you missed any of the episodes from the first three seasons, those previous episodes can be found on our host site https://rss.com/podcasts/thepogilpodcast/ .
Duration:00:08:48
Meet the Peach and Impact Award Winners for 2023
5/22/2023
This is the time of year when we honor some of our hard working members of the POGIL Project. Join us as we meet the Peach and Impact Award winners for 2023. You can learn more about the awards and the present and past winners by visiting https://www.pogil.org/search?q=peach+award .
Duration:00:34:20
Involvement with the POGIL Project
4/17/2023
In Episode 10 of Season 3 of the POGIL Podcast, we talk about how practitioners can become part of the POGIL Project. There are many ways that a practitioner can benefit from belonging to this transformative community. Siobhan and Wayne are joined in the discussion by Joyce Easter of Virginia Wesleyan University and Tim Herzog of Weber State University. If you would like to become active with the Project, this episode can help you find your way,
Duration:00:37:04
What Do You Do in Your Classroom? Talking With Others About POGIL.
3/20/2023
As POGIL practitioners, we don’t work in a vacuum. Colleagues and administrators have an interest in what we are doing in our classrooms. Join our fellow practitioners; Kristy Mardis, Sheila Barbach and Alex Grushow as they discuss their experiences when talking with others about POGIL.
Duration:00:36:32
Facilitating Student Metacognition
2/20/2023
One of the process skills that is central to POGIL teaching is the ability of students to be aware of their thinking and learning. Are your students practicing metacognition in your classroom? Will your students continue to be metacognitive after they have left your classroom? In episode 8 of season 3 of the POGIL Podcast, Siobhan Julian talks with Mary Twist van Opstal of Harper College and McHenry County College and Marty Perry of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences about the challenges they have experienced and strategies they have used to help their students develop this important process skill.
References
Powerful Teaching
ELIPSS
Make It Stick
Duration:00:49:19
Alternative Grading Strategies
2/6/2023
Grading is not an easy part of a teacher’s job. Are you satisfied with how you are grading students’ work and confident that your grades reflect your students’ knowledge? Join us on the POGIL Podcast as Alex Grushow talks with POGIL practitioners who have developed alternatives to traditional grading. Stephanie Erickson discusses her use of Standards-Based Grading in middle and high school science classes. Sean Garrett-Roe describes how he uses Mastery-Based Grading in his chemistry classes at University of Pittsburgh. Nick Roster explains the Equity Grading that he uses in his biology classes at Northwestern Michigan College. Our guests have also provided us with some references that you may find helpful as you explore this topic.
(1) Dueck (2) Dueck (3) Feldman (4) Hammond (5) Sackstein (6) Toledo and Dubas
Duration:00:45:20
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About POGIL
1/23/2023
As you use POGIL in your classrooms, do you have questions about how to get the most out of this great pedagogy? Of course, you do! In Episode 6 of Season 3, Siobhan Julian visits with Suzanne Ruder of Virginia Commonwealth University and Tracey Murray of Capital University who provide their answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about POGIL.
Duration:00:54:44
Happy Holidays from the POGIL Podcast!
12/23/2022
We hope you have enjoyed the first part of Season 3 of the POGIL Podcast. This special episode will give you a little taste of what to expect in the coming year. Happy Holidays to everyone!
Duration:00:06:28
Reporting Out Using Technology in the POGIL Classroom
12/19/2022
How do your students report out in the classroom? Are you interested in technology tools to help facilitate the report out process? In Episode 5 of Season 3 of the POGIL Podcast, Alex Grushow talks with Jia Luo (Washington University in St Louis), Ruthanne Paradise (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Tina Hanson-Lewis (California State University, Chico) about the technology they use to facilitate student feedback. Join us as our panel discusses using Poll Everywhere Pear Deck Jamboard Kami Gradescope CATME Microsoft Teams and Google for Education in the classroom.
Duration:00:26:34
What if a POGIL Activity Doesn't Exist?
12/5/2022
Podcast 4 of Season 3 concerns something that many of us have faced. What do we do when there are no published activities for a topic we are teaching, or perhaps, no activities that are available in our discipline? Siobhan Julian talks to Megan Hoffman of Berea College and Sidney Boquiren of Adelphi University about this important topic and how they have developed strategies to keep on POGILing.
Duration:00:49:27
Roles in the POGIL Classroom
11/21/2022
Roles! Which roles should students have in the POGIL classroom? Why am I using these roles? These are a couple of topics that our guests, Kristen Drury of William Floyd High School and Rodney Austin of Geneva College discuss with Alex Grushow in Episode 3/Season 3 of the POGIL Podcast. If you have ever thought about how roles can be used in the POGIL classroom, this is the episode for you.
Duration:00:35:00
Icebreaker Numbers and 5 Best Practices
11/7/2022
Episode 2 of Season 3 is about techniques for facilitating conversation in group settings. Siobhan Julian talks with Andrew Totah-McCarty of San Jose State University about his methods for initiating and maintaining meaningful discussions among his students. Join us to learn about Icebreaker Numbers and the 5 practices of Anticipating, Monitoring, Selecting, Sequencing and Connecting that Andrew uses in his classrooms.
Duration:00:24:53