Both the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) and Process Orientated Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) represent attempts by creative and talented people to address problems students have learning chemistry. But what leads us to search for such new approaches? And how do these pedagogies address these needs? This presentation will review what we know about learning from both a cognitive psychology point of view and the guidelines of effective mentoring to address the question of how these new pedagogies address identifiable needs in student learning. The discomfort with the status quo of traditional teaching that leads to the creation of the practical applications of learning theory will offer insights into the creation of new pedagogies from the classroom perspective.

Why do we search for alternate pedagogies like SWA or POGIL?

247th National Meeting (2014)

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