Join a POGIL Affinity Group! Connect. Share. Grow. Transform Learning.
Are you passionate about active learning and creating engaging classrooms? POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) Affinity Groups bring educators together to explore strategies, exchange ideas, and support one another in implementing POGIL in diverse contexts.
Why Join?
Collaborate with like-minded educators in your field.
Share best practices and innovative teaching strategies.
Gain insights tailored to your discipline or interests.
Build a supportive professional network.
This Year's Affinity Groups
HBCU Educators – Explore strategies to enhance active learning at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Writing – Collaborate on writing POGIL activities for your courses and share best practices for designing inquiry-based learning materials.
Computer Science – Work together on POGIL activities, coding exercises, and inquiry-based approaches in CS classrooms.
Book Club – Run in conjunction with the Networks Task Force, this group will begin with Jonathan Zimmerman’s The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1421438289).
Interested in Joining?
Register for the kickoff meeting and indicate the group(s) that might interest you. (You can pick more than one!)
Attend the kickoff meeting to meet other POGIL practitioners and see if the group feels like a good fit.
Who Should Join?
Educators new to POGIL
Experienced POGIL practitioners
Anyone interested in collaborative, student-centered learning
Take your teaching to the next level with POGIL! Connect with peers. Share your expertise. Inspire students.
Questions or can't make the kickoff? Reach out to Vanessa Coote (vanessa.coote@famu.edu) or Ruthanne Paradise (rparadise@chem.umass.edu).
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