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At this stage of your placement, you are likely receiving more nuanced feedback and exercising greater professional autonomy. This reflection asks you to closely examine how you process critique—and how you translate it into real behavioral change.
Draw on feedback from your Week 7 Summary Status Memo or recent supervisor check-ins. Structure your response in the following three sections:
1. The Transcription (Exact Feedback)
Identify a piece of constructive feedback that challenged you.
Quote one exact sentence or specific comment from your supervisor
Choose something that initially felt difficult to hear, triggered defensiveness, or made you question your abilities
Focus on accuracy—this should be a verbatim or near-verbatim transcription, not a summary.
2. The Identity Split (Internal Processing)
Analyze your internal reaction to this feedback by separating two parts of your identity:
Your “Student Identity”
How did the part of you that seeks grades, approval, or validation interpret this critique?
What emotions or thoughts did it trigger?
Your Emerging “Professional Identity”
How did the part of you focused on growth, skill-building, and effectiveness interpret the same feedback?
How did it reframe or contextualize the critique?
Reflect on the tension between these identities and what that reveals about your development.
3. The 48-Hour Application (Behavioral Shift)
Identify a specific task from the past 48 hours (e.g., drafting an email, revising a memo, conducting research, or participating in a conversation) where you consciously applied this feedback.
What was your previous/default approach to this type of task?
What specific change did you make in response to the feedback?
How did your behavior or decision-making differ this time?
Be concrete—focus on observable actions, wording choices, organization, or communication strategies.
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