Thinking about what you have learned about the learning outcomes from your experience.
Give feedback to yourself.
Communicating your response to thoughts and feelings
There are many ways in which you could meaningfully reflect on your service as action experiences. Here are a few ideas:
Write or speak in the form of a narrative, a poem, an article for the newspaper, a short story, a blog/vlog
Perform: a skit or a puppet show, a presentation, a song
Create: a photo series, a video, or a painting (with reflection notes)
What did I learn about the community/person/people/animals I helped?
What was the need or problem that I was addressing through my action?
What interests, skills or talents did I already have that I could apply to this SA experience?
What did I already know about this community or issue?
What investigations did I do to build or expand my understanding of the community or issue?
What did I hope would be different because of my action?
What strengths in the community/person/people did I draw on and use to help address any needs?
What did I discover about any other needs or problems?
In what ways will the effects of my service continue?
What was easy/challenging for me? What did I do well? What did I struggle with?
What approaches to learning (ATL) skill and skill strategies did I use and how successful were they?
What learner profile attributes did I demonstrate? How did this help me in this service as action experience?
What learner profile attributes were challenging to demonstrate? Why?
What ATL skills could I further develop in order to more fully demonstrate specific learner profile attributes?
How could I apply what I learned to other situations?
How did the group work together (for group projects)?
What ATL collaboration skills and skill strategies did we use that worked well?
What collaboration challenges did we encounter?
What ATL collaboration skills and skill strategies needed strengthening?
What did I need to consider when making the plan?
What knowledge did I draw on to make the plan?
What evidence of my service experience did I plan on collecting or making?
How did my/our plan work out?
What went according to my/our plan? What did I/we have to change? Why?
If I/we did the project again, what would I plan to do differently?
In what ways and to what extent did I/we achieve my/our goals for the project?
I predict that…
Today I learned…
Today I figured out…
Today I discovered…
Today I explored…
I want to know more about…
I’m most proud of…
I’m determined to…
The most challenging thing was…
I wonder…
Today I found out…
The most difficult thing was…
Today I asked…
Today I was successful because…
Today I was unsuccessful because…
I am proud of myself today because I…
I used my time well today because I…
I discovered…
Next time I will remember to…
It’s cool how…
I’m confused about…
Can you help me with…?
Now I know…
I was surprised that…