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?