Not only is POGIL based on educational research, but The POGIL Project strongly encourages instructors to reflect on and assess their teaching. Over the years, The Project has collected a great deal of data related to the effectiveness of POGIL in the classroom to both teach students content knowledge and to develop process skills.
A POGIL activity is designed to be used with self-managed teams that employ the instructor as a facilitator of learning rather than as a source of information. A POGIL activity guides students through an exploration to construct, deepen, refine, and/or integrate understanding of relevant disciplinary content.
The Approach to Implementing POGIL As a POGIL practitioner, you work with students to create an effective team learning environment and guide students in the process of learning, developing skills, and developing their own understanding—all critically important for a successful POGIL learning experience for teacher and student, and often a new paradigm for a classroom teacher.
What is POGIL? POGIL is an acronym for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning. Because POGIL is a student-centered instructional approach, in a typical POGIL classroom or laboratory, students work in small teams with the instructor acting as a facilitator.
POGIL Activity Clearinghouse The PAC contains student-centered instructional activities at various stages of development centered around the 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. Single activities that meet the ...
What is POGIL? POGIL is based on the biology of learning (e.g. Zull, 2002), and has been developed and validated over the last 15 years, primarily in chemistry education (e.g. Moog, Spencer, 2008). In POGIL, teams of learners (typically 3-4) work on scripted inquiry activities and investigations designed to help them construct their own knowledge, often by modeling the original processes of ...