Lessons learned from 10 years of POGILing

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Martin D. Perry Jr., perrym@obu.edu, Department of Chemistry, Ouachita Baptist University, 410 Ouachita Street, Box 3711, Arkadelphia, AR 71998
Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) has been the primary mode of my classroom facilitation in courses such as general and physical chemistry during the last ten years. Materials developed by Farrell, Moog, & Spencer at Franklin & Marshall College have been used to allow students to learn in a lectureless format. Not only do the students continue to learn the necessary content, they also develop key processing skills which will serve them well in future courses and life in general. While this method has proven successful in a wide variety of classrooms, this presentation will focus on some of the common pitfalls an instructor switching from "the sage on the stage" might encounter and the lessons learned over the last ten years.
 

Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)
8:30 AM-11:35 AM, Sunday, March 25, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N231, Level 2, Oral

Division of Chemical Education

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007