Spring 2019 POGIL e-Series: OPTIC - Observation Protocol for Teaching in Interactive Classrooms

In this web-based session, facilitators Urik Halliday (Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center - Chicago, IL) and Shannon Wachowski (University of Wyoming - Laramie, WY) will introduce you to the basics of using the OPTIC tool in a classroom.  OPTIC is an observation tool for:

• the coaching and mentoring of practitioners
• experienced practitioners to obtain feedback on their facilitating
• administrators to aid in the evaluation of faculty who participate in POGIL teaching styles
• the documentation of collaborative learning in a POGIL classroom

NOTE:  OPTIC is a whole classroom observation instrument.  OPTIC is not an observation tool for individual learning teams.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• distinguish between different OPTIC codes
• examine and interpret the meaning of the OPTIC Facilitator Actions Codes and the Interaction Codes
• use the OPTIC tool while watching a video of a POGIL classroom
• use a pre/post observation discussion tool
  

Registration for this event is limited to 28 people.  Registrants will be sent a Zoom meeting invitation approximately 1 week prior to the webinar.  Please note that the session begins at 7:00 PM Eastern Time.  The session is scheduled for 90 minutes but the facilitators will remain available to answer questions at the completion of the session.