In the past few years, I have become very interested in POGIL activities. I have successfully used a number of the lessons from www.pogil.org for my first year courses, and I have also used some of the college level POGIL activities from the website and the Moog and Farrell book with my AP courses. Some of the currently available activities, however, weren't necessarily ideal matches for what my AP students need. One of my personal goals for the upcoming year is to develop or adapt some POGIL lessons that are suitable for AP Chem.
Very recently, I also learned about an approach called "Layered Curriculum" (see http://www.help4teachers.com/ for more information) and I hope, over the summer, to develop a couple of units for my non-honors first year course. I have no experience with layered curriculum, but it is potentially interesting and I would like to try it out.
Is there anyone in the area who would be interested in collaborating on either of these with me this summer? I teach in Harvard, MA and live not far from 495. I"m going to pursue these regardless, but I thought it would be more fun and more fruitful to work with a group of like minded fellow teachers! Please contact me off-list at vvmidey@xxxxxxxxxxx or at my school email account, kvanderveen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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