Completing your Reflections

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?

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