Unpacking POGILClass Session 2 – September 15, 2016

AgendaQuestions about the course, syllabus, assignments,

Tonight’s assignment – Why Teach?

Revisiting the Teaching Perspectives Inventory

Unpacking POGIL

Dialogue Education: Jane Vella’s concept of learning tasks

Themes from your Why Teach? Papers

0Discuss in a small group: • What I realized about my motivation for

teaching

• What surprised me

• When people ask me why I teach in academic medicine (nursing/dentistry), what will I say now?

Pratt et al.’s Five Teaching Perspectives

0 The Transmission Perspective

0 The Developmental Perspective

0 The Apprenticeship Perspective

0 The Nurturing Perspective

0 The Social Reform Perspective

What assumptions do you hold about teaching and learning?

More complicated

than it sounds

We approach teaching with

biases, intuitions, hunches, and

habits that frame what we do

Learners exhibit

bewildering diversity as

well as readiness for

learning

Skillful teaching is whatever helps students learn (Stephen Brookfield, 2006).

A learning task is a way to present new content, inviting engagement, reflection,

and action on that content (Jane Vella, 2001)

Skillful teachers adopt a critically reflective practice

What is critical reflection?

Process by which we research the assumptions informing our practice as teachers

… Through our students’ eyes … Colleagues’ perceptions … Literature … Our own autobiography

What students value in teachersIndicators of

credibility: Are you believable?

Expertise

Experience in the field being taught

Making the rationale for classroom decisions

clear

Conviction

Indicators of Authenticity: Trustworthiness,

openness, honesty

Congruence – words and actions match

Full disclosure

Responsiveness

Personhood

Using Jane Vella’s Learning Tasks to Develop a POGIL Exercise

Inductive TaskInput Task

Implementation TaskIntegration Task

Consider your specialty and how it might mesh with someone else’s to teach new content to learners; organize in groups 2-3 Decide what content you want to teach in a POGIL exercise

You need a model, framework, or image(s) for exploration and discovery

Write 2 or 3 content objectives

Write 1 process objective

Develop several questions that will guide learners to discover what you want them to learn without telling.

Implementation Task

How does the act of guiding learners through questions appeal to you as an instructor?

What benefits do you perceive it will have for the learner?

POGIL exercises have three major areas. How will you create an application exercise for your POGIL?

Integration Task

Upcoming Class Sessions!

Next Week, Sept 22

• Readings in Ambrose text• Review chapters in Jane Vella’s book• Check Bb site for posted handouts!

Team-Based Learning with Dr. Steven Bishop, Sept 29• Will have readings in TBL book and posted on Bb

Fall Break! No class on October 6