Reflection Questions

Reflection questions encourage students to get the most out of their service-learning experience.

Pre-Service Reflection:

Why Questions

  • What is the community issue you are going to address?

  • How does this issue relate to your personal and professional interests?

  • How could working on this issue help you understand your course information?

You Questions

  • What are your expectations for the service-learning experience? What are your hesitations? What are you looking forward to? What do you want to learn?

  • What might be the biggest challenge to your learning? What assets do you bring to this experience?

Mid Semester Reflection:

  • What are your assumptions about the people you are going to work with?

  • What similarities do you share with the people you are working with? What differences?

  • How are you perceived by the people you are working with?

  • What might be a potential miscommunication?

Mid Semester Reflection:

  • Describe something you've learned from your advocacy project, then relate it to course concepts OR

  • Describe a course concept, and describe how it can apply to your service-learning experience OR

  • Explain a course theory/idea/practice. Did your experience with this project support or contradict it?

End of Semester Reflection:

  • Identify and discuss three areas of academic growth or skills and attitudes you have developed through your experience OR

  • How has your thinking shifted? Have your assumptions changed about the people/community need/discipline?

  • When did you have your aha moment, and what brought it about? Why is this important?

  • What will you do differently because of this learning?

  • What courses could you take in the future to learn more about this issue and/or gain skills and knowledge to help you address this issue?