The POGIL Podcast: Recent Episodes
The POGIL Podcast
“The POGIL Podcast” is a new conversation from The POGIL Project that celebrates innovative educators, both in and out of the classroom. You will hear about what inspired them to become teachers, and how the practice of student-centered education transformed their classrooms and improved outcomes for their students. Learn how they’re innovating outside of the classroom as well!
Join us as we “think out loud” with POGIL educators, researchers, and others working to transform teaching and learning for the 21st century.
POGIL stands for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning, a student-centered approach that guides students in constructing their own understanding of content and helps them develop important skills such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking, and problem solving.
Thanks for joining us and we look forward to bringing you great conversations from The POGIL Podcast!
Well, it's that time of year. Students are back in class. Facilitators are facilitating. The POGIL Podcast is returning! We are closing in on the first full episode of Season 5. Join Alex, Siobhan and Wayne as they talk about what is store for our listeners when we return in October.
Having students work in teams is at the heart of teaching with POGIL. But POGIL is not the only pedagogy that stresses the use of teams in the classroom. Join Siobhan Julian as she talks with, Neal Carter , professor of political science at BYU-Idaho, and, Shawn Simonson , professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Boise State University, as they compare and contrast POGIL and TBL. For more information, check out the following links. POGIL TBL LearnTBL and ELIPSS .
How important is our students' science literacy as they become productive citizens in society? In Episode 5 of Season 4 of the POGIL Podcast, Alex Grushow talks with Dr. Matthew Fisher of Saint Vincent College about his work with SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities). Matt incorporates POGIL activities into his classrooms while using an approach that is centered around civic awareness. Join us to see how POGIL and SENCER can work together.
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In Episode 4 of Season 4 of the POGIL Podcast, Siobhan Julian talks with Dr. Jonathon Moir and Dr. Alexey Leontyev about approaching chemistry education with an emphasis on green chemistry. Dr. Moir is the Senior Program Manager at the Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community at Beyond Benign. Dr. Leontyev is an assistant professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at North Dakota State University, where he incorporates green chemistry topics into his classrooms and labs. Join us as we explore this approach to teaching chemistry and how it might overlap with POGIL. https://www.beyondbenign.org/ https://www.pogil.org/
Are you the only practitioner in your classroom? Or, do you have someone to help you with the facilitation? Alex Grushow talks with Laurie Langdon and Valerie Otero of University of Colorado, Boulder and Andrea Van Duzor of Chicago State University about Learning Assistant Alliance. LAA is a program that brings undergraduate students into classrooms as learning assistants, LAs. Find out how POGIL practitioners can use LAs in the classroom. Find out how POGIL is a natural fit with LAA. More information for both LAA and POGIL can be found at learningassistantalliance.org and pogil.org.
In Episode 2 of Season 4 of the POGIL Podcast, Alex Grushow talks with Chris Mayfield of the POGIL Project and Jane Snare of zyBooks. Chris and Jane compare and contrast these two different approaches to teaching and find quite a bit of common ground. You can find more information about POGIL at www.pogil.org and zyBooks at zybooks.com .
Wayne talks with Laura Trout about the new collection of activities for AP Chemistry which is coming soon from the Project. How soon? Take a listen.
Are you a college teacher who wonders how secondary school teachers use POGIL? Are you a high school or middle school teacher who wonders how college teachers use POGIL? If you answer yes to either of these questions, then we have the podcast for you. Join Alex Grushow as he talks to Laura Parmentier of Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin and Maddy Blain of Whitewater Middle School in Whitewater, Wisconsin about how they implement POGIL in their different learning environments.
Join us as we add bonus content to Season 4 of the POGIL Podcast. In News From The Project, we will keep you informed about topics of interest to our POGIL community. In this episode, Jennifer Larson of the Networks Group discusses the new direction of the POGIL Social Hour. Feel free to contact Wayne (wayne.pearson@pogil.org) or Jennifer (jlarson2@capital.edu ) for more information.
Season 4 of the POGIL Podcast is on the horizon! Join Siobhan, Alex and Wayne as they preview the upcoming season. And, if you missed any of the episodes from the first three seasons, those previous episodes can be found on our host site https://rss.com/podcasts/thepogilpodcast/ .
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,
As POGIL practitioners, we don’t work in a vacuum. Colleagues and administrators have an interest in what we are doing in our classrooms. Join our fellow practitioners; Kristy Mardis, Sheila Barbach and Alex Grushow as they discuss their experiences when talking with others about POGIL.
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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Make It Stick
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.
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, Kristin 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 uses in his classrooms.
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 you have attended NCAPP meetings in the past or if you are wondering if you should apply for the first time, you will want to listen to this episode. You can apply today at https://forms.gle/amC8cP44NXe27nWaA . AND, we would like to hear about your favorite aspects of NCAPP. Join the discussion on Facebook at #thepogilpodcast.
This episode will introduce listeners to some changes we have made at the podcast and preview the upcoming season.
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 community.
Today, Co-host Alex Grushow (who is a Professor of Chemistry at Rider University and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) interviews Laura Trout, who has been selected as the first recipient of the Impact award. Laura Trout has a B.S. in chemistry from Central Washington University and a M.S. in chemistry from the University of Washington. She has been teaching for 25 years in both public and private schools in Washington State and Pennsylvania. Laura has been using POGIL activities in her classes since 2000. She became involved with The POGIL Project in 2004 and has been writing and implementing guided inquiry activities, facilitating POGIL workshops and serving the POGIL community ever since. She served as the Editor-in-Chief for the High School POGIL Initiative (HSPI) which produced four POGIL activity books for high school - Biology, Chemistry, AP Biology, and AP Chemistry. She has also helped to produce a lab manual for AP Chemistry for PASCO Scientific which utilizes POGIL techniques. She was a member of The POGIL Project Steering Committee for two terms.
Recently, Laura has taken a position with The Project as Materials Coordinator, and continues to teach part-time at Lancaster Country Day School in Pennsylvania. In 2021, she earned the 2021 DivCHED Award for Excellence in High School Teaching for the Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM).
Please Note: For those who will be attending POGIL’s National Meeting in June, Laura Trout will be officially recognized as the winner of The POGIL Project's inaugural IMPACT award, and the Project will stream the award ceremony. Please be on the lookout for more details at pogil.org.
Enjoy the conversation!
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 from Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Cambridge, MN.
Enjoy the conversation!
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 host of a podcast called Physics Alive where he sparks new life into the physics classroom. Dr. Moser speaks with researchers and textbook authors on the frontiers of physics education, life science and health professionals who use physics on an everyday basis, designers and engineers who learn from the natural world, teachers who employ innovative and active learning styles, and students who want the most out of their education. More details about the podcast can be found at: http://www.physicsalive.com
Enjoy the conversation!
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 works at the intersection of justice, climate science, and learning and is a climate and anti-oppression activist, scientist, learning scientist, educator, mother, locally elected official, and many other things besides. Deb works in research-practice-policy partnerships from local community to international scales. She works to iteratively understand complex socio-ecological systems through design-based and action-oriented research while at the same time seeking to improve human-environment relationships and sustainability. She draws on an eclectic range of justice theory to inform her work in the world and to foster her continued journey for transformative liberation. More Information about Dr. Morrison’s work can be found at www.debmorrison.me
Enjoy the conversation!
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 have Dr. Joyce Easter, Dean of the Batten Honors College of Virginia Wesleyan University and Professor of Chemistry and chair of POGIL’s National Conference to Advance POGIL Practice or NCAPP in 2023. She is also the chair of POGIL’s strategic plan working group titled "Embracing equity: targeted recruitment." Enjoy the conversation!
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 participate in learner-centered collaborative teaching styles, and the documentation of collaborative small-group learning in a learner-centered classroom.
Today, Co-host Wayne Pearson (who is a retired chemistry professor from the U.S. Naval Academy) will interview two POGIL practitioners behind the creation of the OPTIC App: Urik Halliday, a high school science educator for the Chicago Public Schools, has worked at Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center for the past fourteen years, and Shannon Wachowski, who was most recently with the Wyoming Department of Education where she supported Wyoming science teachers with science standards implementation and assessment. Enjoy the conversation!
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 and Dr. Michael Bruno. Enjoy the conversation!
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 Activity Clearinghouse.
Caryl Fish, Professor and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Science department at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA; Shawn Simonson, Professor and Director of the Human Performance Laboratory in the Department of Kinesiology at Boise State University and editor of the book POGIL: An Introduction to Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning for Those Who Wish to Empower Learners and Melissa Reeves, an associate professor of chemistry at Tuskegee University where she specializes in physical chemistry and computational chemistry. Enjoy the conversation!
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 fundamental aspect of teaching in a POGIL classroom is building personal relationships— student to student and student to teacher. It is no surprise that Goal One of the Strategic Plan encourages us to reach out and build personal relationships that are so important in any organization. We have some folks with us today who have been instrumental in that outreach.
Today, co-host Wayne Pearson (who is a retired chemistry professor from the U.S. Naval Academy) interviews our three panelists-Tim Herzog, Professor of Chemistry
Chair of Faculty Senate at Weber State University, Gail Webster, formerly a professor of Chemistry at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC and now American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Policy and Technology Fellow in Washington DC; and Kristin Plessel, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Enjoy the conversation!
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 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) interviews Marty Perry, Vice Chair for Professional Education in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ; Suzanne Ruder, Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond; and Chris Bauer, Professor of Chemistry at the University of New Hampshire’s College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. Enjoy the conversation!
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) interviews Richard S. Moog, Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA and the Executive Director of The POGIL Project as well as Susan Shadle, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies & Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Founder of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University in Idaho. Enjoy the conversation!
Please Note: A resource titled Collaborative Strategic Planning in Higher Education by Patrick Sanaghan was mentioned by Dr. Shadle and includes activities/exercises that are laid out with instructions, materials, and diagrams for chairs. To access this resource, go to the above link.
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 University of Wyoming. Originally a chemical engineer, Shannon left industry to pursue a career of life-long learning and helping others learn. In her spare time, Shannon enjoys climbing, running, pottery, quilting, and spending time with her dog, Shasta and husband, Neil.
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 molecular dynamics of polymers. She was part of the Physical Chemistry Online (PCOL) group in the early 2000s, has worked on two American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Exam Committees, and works as part of the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning Physical Chemistry Laboratory (POGIL-PCL) community.
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) in Bristol, TN. It was while at King that he first became exposed to POGIL through one of The Project’s 3-day workshops. He joined the faculty of the Department of Health Sciences at East Tennessee State University in 2011 where he is now an Associate Professor and a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Teaching Excellence. He has written journal articles and book chapters about POGIL and is the author of Anatomy and Physiology: A Guided Inquiry.
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, Physical Chemistry, and the Art and Science of Brewing. His research interests are centered on developing nanoparticle based sensors and drug delivery mechanisms, and testing them using lasers. He enjoys playing volleyball, cycling, hanging out with his two Golden Retrievers (Kingsley and Tonks), and brewing beer.
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 certification with endorsements in English and ESL, she transitioned into teaching English language and literature at a public high school, focusing primarily on AP Literature.
She first joined the POGIL community in 2012, and she now writes and utilizes her own POGIL activities in order to teach poetry, reading and literary analysis of poetry, as well as grammar. Dalia holds a M.A. in Medieval English Literature (Michigan State University) and a B.A. in English Literature and Judaic Studies (University of Michigan).
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 processes in episodic memory and applications to educational contexts. His research has been sponsored by the Institute of Educational Sciences, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and NASA.
McDaniel has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. He has written numerous scholarly articles and is a co-author with Peter Brown and Henry Roediger of the recent book: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Harvard University Press, 2014).
Welcome to a special episode of the POGIL Podcast!
We at the POGIL National Office are excited for 2021, when we will present a virtual National Conference to Advance POGIL Practice meeting (or NCAPP) with the theme of "Transforming Education & Educators.”
POGIL Practitioner Dr. Wayne Pearson interviewed next year’s panelists and through their discussion, you will learn about the origins of NCAPP and what to expect next year. Panelists include:
Dr. An Le of Florida Southern University
Dr. Chris Mayfield – James Madison University
Dr. Kristin Plessel – University of Wisconsin Whitewater
Dr. Gail Webster – Guilford College
Please Mark your calendars for June 28-30th and we will see you next year!
Dr. Kristin Plessel is a Nebraska native that has been transplanted in Wisconsin. She earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined the UW Colleges’ Rock County campus and chemistry department in 2010, and currently serves as Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. As a graduate student, Kristin was introduced to POGIL, which she immediately applied once she acquired a classroom of her own.
For her use of POGIL in the classroom, she was recognized with the Arthur M. Kaplan Fellows Award, the Gil Sedor Excellence in Teaching Award for UW Rock County and the University of Wisconsin System’s 2016 Alliant Energy Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award. Kristin was also the recipient of the POGIL PEAch Award in 2018.
Bruno grew up in Connecticut, and received an A.B. in chemistry from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cornell University, and did a post-doc at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. At UNC he was a fellow in the SPIRE fellowship program, which combines research support and community service with an emphasis on minority careers in academic science. He was first introduced to POGIL as an assistant professor of chemistry at Guilford College. He is currently an Instructor of chemistry at the North Carolina School for Science and Mathematics, a public residential high school for talented students, where he uses POGIL to teach chemistry and biochemistry, and has introduced the practice to many of his colleagues who now incorporate the pedagogy into their own classrooms. Bruno was named the recipient of the 2018 POGIL Early Achievement Award (PEACH) in 2018.
Dr. Sheila Qureshi joined Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar (WCM-Q) as a senior lecturer in 2007 and was promoted to associate professor of chemistry in 2018. She obtained her B.Sc. degree in chemistry and biology from the University of London, Goldsmiths College. Dr. Qureshi received her PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of Wales' Institute of Science and Technology (now University of Cardiff), UK, where her PhD thesis focused on synthesis of C-glycosides. She did her postdoctoral research at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and then moved on to work in the chemical industry where her work involved pharmaceutical production support and development.
Qualified in education as well as research, she was involved in the initial development of the pilot Foundation Program at WCM-Q where she supported both students and faculty. In 2009 and 2010, she received the Excellence in Teaching Award in the Foundation Program. She is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
We continue our conversation with Dr. Moog, who discusses the origins of the POGIL acronym.
Today is our first official episode of The POGIL Podcast, where we have our co-host Alex Grushow (who is a Professor of Chemistry at Rider University and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) interview Richard S. Moog, PhD. Moog is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. He is the Executive Director of The POGIL Project and the recipient of the 2016 George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education form the American Chemical Society. Moog is the co-author of POGIL materials for general chemistry and physical chemistry, having implemented POGIL learning environments in his courses since 1994. His research interests include the impact of activity structure and team discourse on student learning.
Before our first season of The POGIL Podcast officially begins, we would like to introduce you to each of our hosts in this inaugural season of the POGIL podcast.
First, we have Dr, Alex Grushow.Alex received a B.A in chemistry from Franklin & Marshall College and a Ph.D. from University of Minnesota. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Rider University and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Since his days as an undergraduate he has been fascinated by intermolecular forces and has published papers on molecules held together by hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces, dative bonding and ion-molecule interactions. He has worked as a Program Director for the National Science Foundation and has worked in chemistry examination development for both ETS and the ACS Examinations Institute. He has also been heavily involved in innovating the teaching of physical chemistry; starting as a member of the Physical Chemistry Online Consortium (PCOL) and most recently as a co-PI on two NSF grants to develop POGIL experiments in Physical Chemistry (POGIL-PCL). For The POGIL Project itself, Alex is a past member of the Steering Committee and is also a co-Author of the Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy book published by the POGIL Press.
In addition to Alex, we have Wayne Pearson.
After growing up in Salisbury Maryland, Wayne received degrees at Virginia Tech (B.S. Chemistry 1974), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (M.S. in Teaching of Physical Sciences 1976) and University of Missouri-Columbia (Ph.D. in Chemistry, 1986). After a year at University of Notre Dame as staff crystallographer, he joined the faculty at the United States Naval Academy where he taught chemistry for thirty-two years until his retirement in December of 2019. After attending a 3-day workshop in 2009, Wayne became a POGIL practitioner, emphasizing inquiry learning in general chemistry, inorganic chemistry and X-ray crystallography courses. Now that he is retired, Wayne spends his time writing and recording music, caring for his tropical fish, staying active with research in small-molecule crystallography and working for the POGIL Project.
Welcome to The POGIL Podcast. “The POGIL Podcast” is a new conversation from The POGIL Project that celebrates innovative educators, both in and out of the classroom. You will hear about what inspired them to become teachers, and how the practice of student-centered education transformed their classrooms and improved outcomes for their students. Learn how they’re innovating outside of the classroom as well! Join us as we “think out loud” with POGIL educators, researchers, and others working to transform teaching and learning for the 21st century.
POGIL stands for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning, a student-centered approach that guides students in constructing their own understanding of content and helps them develop important skills such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking, and problem solving.
The POGIL Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the POGIL approach to student-centered learning through effective teacher professional development, well-designed classroom materials, and a supportive community of like-minded educators. Thanks for joining us and we look forward to bringing you great conversations from The POGIL Podcast!