Reflective Thinking

Here are some example questions around which you can engage your students in reflective thinking:

1. What happened that most surprised you?

2. What patterns can you recognise in your experience?

3. What was the most fulfilling part of it? And the least fulfilling part of it? What does that suggest to you about your values?

4. What happened that contradicted your prior beliefs? What happened that confirmed your prior beliefs?

5. How do you feel about that experience now compared with how you felt about it at the time?

6. What does the experience suggest to you about your strengths?

7. What does the experience suggest to you about your weaknesses and opportunities for development?

8. How else could you view that experience?

9. What did you learn from that experience about how you react?

10. What other options did you have at the time?

11. Is there anything about the experience that was familiar to you?

12. What might you do differently as a result of that experience and your reflection on it? What actions do your reflections lead you to?

Ref Table 2, "Assessing Reflective Learning", Tom Bourner, 2003 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/00400910310484321, visited 27 June 2016.