The POGIL Podcast

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 faci...

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.

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 u...

In Episode 1 of the POGIL Podcast, Siobhan Julian has a discussion with Joyce Easter, chairperson of the NCAPP 2023 planning committee. This episode is full of great information about the conference. Joyce and Siobhan talk about the types of activities that are planned, the plenary speakers who will be attending, when and where the meeting will take place and, most importantly, how to apply. If yo...

The Third Season of the POGIL Podcast is about to begin! Join Wayne Pearson, Siobhan Julian and Alex Grushow for our introductory episode. The team discusses some changes that have been made for this upcoming season and previews the season’s theme, the Practice of POGIL. We have some exciting topics and great guests in store for our listeners. So, tune in and see what is coming your way!

This podcast episode celebrates the inaugural 2022 POGIL IMPACT Award, which is bestowed on individuals or teams of individuals who have achieved extraordinary outcomes related to The POGIL Project’s strategic plan. The award celebrates sustained impact and/or innovation achieved by a member or members of the POGIL community, and highlights a strong footprint in both The Project and the POGIL comm...

This podcast episode celebrates the 2022 POGIL Early Achievement Award Winners or “ PEACH Awards .” Today, co-host Dr. Wayne Pearson (who is a retired chemistry professor from the U.S. Naval Academy) will introduce the Project’s PEACH Award winners: Siobhan Julian from Webster Schroeder High School in Webster, New York is our high school winner. And our post-secondary award winner is Andy Aspaas f...

This podcast is a special episode we’d like to share with you as part of our outreach to other like minded organizations and educators. Today, Co-host Alex Grushow (who is a Professor of Chemistry at Rider University and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) interviews Dr. Brad Moser - a lab technician and instructor of Physics at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. He is also the ho...

Today, we bring into focus POGIL’s upcoming Climate Justice Symposium that will take place in June 2022. POGIL Practitioner Dr. Kristin Plessel, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater interviews Dr. Deb L. Morrison of the University of Washington. Dr. Morrison will be one of the main presenters at the upcoming Climate Justice Symposium. She...

For our seventh episode this season, we will focus on the fifth goal of POGIL’s Strategic Plan - which is Networking and Strategic Collaboration Today, Co-host Alex Grushow (who is a Professor of Chemistry at Rider University and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) interviews Dr. Joan Roque - Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. We also hav...

For our sixth episode this season, we will focus on the Observation Protocol for Teaching in Interactive Classrooms, also known as the OPTIC app. OPTIC is an observation tool for the coaching and mentoring of learner-centered practitioners who use collaborative small groups, experienced practitioners to obtain feedback on their facilitating, administrators to aid in the evaluation of faculty who p...

For our fifth episode this season, we will focus on the third of five strategic goals in The POGIL Project’s Strategic Plan, which is Diversity and Inclusivity: Guiding Principles and Learning Communities Program. Today, Co-host Alex Grushow (who is a Professor of Chemistry at Rider University and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) interviews POGIL Practitioners Dr. Teresa Bixy...

For our fourth episode this season, we will focus on the second of five strategic goals in The POGIL Project’s Strategic Plan, which deals with the creation of High-Quality POGIL Activities. Today, Co-host Wayne Pearson (who is a retired chemistry professor from the U.S. Naval Academy) will interview three panelists who work closely with both The Project’s endorsement process and its POGIL Activit...

For our third episode this season, we will focus on the first of five strategic goals in The POGIL Project’s Strategic Plan, which is to Grow and Support POGIL Practitioners: We will talk about some of the recent initiatives that have helped us pursue this goal, including the National Conference to Advance POGIL Practice, the Networks Working Group, and the upcoming Climate Justice Symposium. A fu...

For our second episode this season, we will focus on POGIL’s National Meeting and What We Do. We’ll be answering several questions, including: How does this meeting help The Project move its strategic plan forward?, as well as how do the working groups associated with the strategic plan make that happen. Co-host Alex Grushow (who is a Professor of Chemistry at Rider University and Chair of the Dep...

During Season 2, we will feature a total of nine episodes focusing on The Project’s strategic plan. In our first episode, we focus on the historical context of POGIL’s strategic plan - Specifically, How did The Project create its plan and why is it so important? Co-host Alex Grushow (who is a Professor of Chemistry at Rider University and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) inte...

Shannon Wachowski is currently the Science Consultant for the Wyoming Department of Education (as of June 2020!). In her 14-year career as an educator, Shannon has taught a variety of science and math classes in rural high school settings as well as facilitated professional development for teachers, from pre-service to veteran, through her work with The POGIL Project, PEER Physics, and the Univers...

Melissa S. Reeves received her B.S. in chemistry at University of Florida and her Ph. D. in chemistry at Indiana University at Bloomington. She is an associate professor of chemistry at Tuskegee University where she specializes in physical chemistry and computational chemistry. Her research interests have ranged from calculating transition states of small molecule reactions in solution to molecula...

Patrick Brown is from Clinton, TN a small community in the Appalachian foothills. He received his B.S. in Biology from UT-Chattanooga and his Ph. D. in Cellular Biology from the University of Georgia. After nearly 5 years as a research scientist with the Belle Baruch Marine Institute of the University of South Carolina, he became an Assistant Professor of Biology at King College (now University) i...

Brian received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Arizona and a Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry from Indiana University. After postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he was a faculty member at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. for five years before coming to Linfield College in 2001. He’s taught many different chemistry courses, including General Chemistry,...

Dalia has been teaching English in Chicago, IL, for the last twelve years after concluding that a career in Human Resources Management could not offer either intrinsic satisfaction or intellectual challenges. In 2008, while pursuing her teacher certification, she began teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) and college readiness skills at a local community college. Upon completing the teacher...

Mark McDaniel is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and the Director of the Center for Integrative Research in Cognition, Learning, and Education (CIRCLE). He received his Ph. D. from University of Colorado in 1980. His research is in the general area of human learning and memory, with an emphasis on prospective memory, encoding and retrieval pro...