The POGIL Activity Clearinghouse (PAC) contains student-centered instructional activities at various stages of development centered on the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) pedagogy. The purpose of this site is to facilitate the collaboration, peer review, and classroom testing stages associated with creating high-quality materials meeting the standards approved by The POGIL Project. This workshop is for anyone who has attended (at a minimum) a half-day Fundamentals of POGIL Workshop and who wishes to gain access to the PAC to obtain feedback on POGIL activities they have written and/or to give feedback to authors writing new POGIL activities. Previous participation in writing training workshops will also be helpful.
In this Collaborative Feedback Training (CFT) session, we will briefly review best practices for writing POGIL activities (activity structure, robust models, learning objectives, etc.) Participants will then be calibrated as feedback reviewers, accessing a draft POGIL activity via the PAC, and using POGIL rubrics to assess the draft activity. They will then share their responses in teams of 3-4, working toward achieving consensus on how best to apply the rubrics. We will also highlight common issues found in draft activities and how feedback can help authors to address these issues. Completion of a CFT session is a prerequisite for obtaining a login and registration for the PAC.
Following BCCE, participants will be given the opportunity (if they so choose) to participate in a Collaborative Peer Feedback process. In CPF, authors upload their draft activity to the PAC. A facilitated Zoom conference is then scheduled, allowing participants to give and receive feedback to each other on the activities they submitted. This CPF session must be completed for an author’s first submission to the PAC.