23 Reflection Questions and one sentence to finish
- What is your role in the community project?
- What were your initial expectations? Have these expectations changed? How? Why?
- What about your involvement working alongside the community has been an eye-opening experience?
- How do you motivate yourself to go to visit the community when you don’t feel like it?
- What specific skills have you used while working alongside the community?
- Describe a person you’ve encountered in the community who made a strong impression on you, positive or negative.
- Do you see benefits of doing community practice work? Why or why not?
- Has your view of the population with whom you have been working changed? How?
- How has the environment and social conditions affected the people you are supporting?
- What institutional structures are in place in the community? How do they affect the people you work with?
- Has the experience affected your worldview? How?
- Have your career options been expanded by your service experience?
- Why does the organisation you are working for exist?
- Did anything about your community involvement surprise you? If so, what?
- What did you do that seemed to be effective or ineffective in the community?
- How does your understanding of the community change as a result of your participation in this project?
- How can you continue your involvement with this group or social issue?
- How can you educate others or raise awareness about this group or social issue?
- What are the most difficult or satisfying parts of your work? Why?
- Talk about any disappointments or successes of your project. What did you learn from it?
- During your community work experience, have you dealt with being an “outsider” at your site? How does being an “outsider” differ from being an “insider”?
- How are your values expressed through your community work?
- What sorts of things make you feel uncomfortable when you are working in the community? Why?
- Complete this sentence: Because of my service-learning, I am….