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Reflection and
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Reflection is an
important part of each new experience and can help
you and your group process the ne information gained
or experienced as well as help you or your group
decide what you will do with the information
obtained or experience and how to incorporate it
back into your everyday life. We encourage
journaling and group or one-on-one discussion for
reflection times.
Here are questions that can spark ideas for writing
in your journal and creating your portfolio.
Connecting with Experience
- Look back on
today. What struck you most strongly? What
happened?
- What images
stand out in your mind? What sights and sounds
and smells? What experiences and conversations?
What was it about those images that made you
remember them?
- What was
happening in your heart? What did you feel?
Upset? Surprised? Confused? Content? What
touched you most deeply today? Why?
- What did you
find most frustration? Most hopeful? Why?
Connecting with People
- Look back on
today. Who did you meet and work with during the
day? Who did you relate to most easily? Who did
you find it hardest to talk with? Why?
- What did you
learn about the people you met? How are their
experiences most like yours? How are they most
different? How would you feel if you had to
change places for a week? For a year? For a
lifetime? Why?
- What did you
learn about yourself today? What do you like
about what you learned? What do you dislike and
most want to change?
Connecting with Issues
- What was
happening in your head? How did the experience
change or challenge your convictions and
beliefs?
- What needs did
your service involvement try to meet? Why did or
didn't it succeed?
- How were justice
and injustice present in the situations you
faced today? Did you learn anything new about
what causes suffering? About what you can do to
make things better?
- How are you part
of the problem? Part of the solution?
Connecting with Your
Learning
- What information
or skills did you learn today?
- How did you
apply knowledge and information you had learned
before this project?
Connecting with the Future
- What did you
learn today that will help you in your service
work in the future? What needs to change in the
world to make things better? What needs to
change in you?
- What hopes and
expectations do you have for those you served?
For yourself?
- Did the service
experience affect what you think you deserve
from life? How you would like to live? What type
of job or career you might choose?
http://www.utextension.utk.edu/4h/sos/whatisit/reflection/reflection_journal.htm |
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