Writing & Submitting Activities
Many participants leave our workshops with the desire to begin writing materials for their courses. To support of this impulse, The POGIL Project provides assistance with writing activities.
To get started writing your own activities, read our Writing Content Learning Objectives, Writing Process Skill Goals, Basic POGIL Classroom Implementation, and Characteristics and Types of POGIL Activities documents to familiarize yourself with what makes for a POGIL activity. The Author Guidelines for Developing Activities and the Elements of a Typical Classroom Activity may also be helpful in this endeavor.
Once you've written an activity, if you would like feedback from experienced POGIL authors, you can submit your activity to The POGIL Project for writing coach review. Although this is not an endorsement by POGIL for your activity, it is an important step to becoming a POGIL author. The review process is limited to three activities at a time.
Reviewers are asked to evaluate the accuracy and clarity of the activity presented, as well as whether the content objectives and targeted learning objectives were achieved to make it a POGIL activity. Reviewers are expected to act professionally and ethically, judging the activities objectively and respecting the intellectual independence of the author. Reviewers are expected to honor the intellectual property of authors and treat activities sent for review as confidential documents. Reviewers are instructed to seek permission from the author before using the activities with students in any fashion.
To submit your activity for review, fill out the Activity Submission Form, prepare an Answer Key for your activity, fill out the Process Skills rubric for reviewers to assess your activity, and then decide whether your activity is either a Learning Cycle or Content Application and fill out the appropriate rubric. Send your activity and supporting documents to the POGIL materials editor at .
Experienced POGIL implementers, who have authored a collection of activities tested in the classrooms of at least two other POGIL trained instructors, are invited to submit those activities for POGIL endorsement.
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