The POGIL Podcast

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 .

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,

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.

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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.

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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.

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!

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.

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.

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.