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Critical Reflection

Critical Reflection. Service-Learning is…. Service-Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities .

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Critical Reflection

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  1. Critical Reflection

  2. Service-Learning is… Service-Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. - National Service-Learning Clearinghouse/ Learn & Serve America

  3. Components of Service-Learning Reciprocal Partnership Need/Interest defined by community Meaningful integration with course content Critical Reflection to “harvest” learning from community Credit/Assessment based on demonstration of learning

  4. Designation Criteria for SL Courses At UVM, a course is designated as service-learning if: • It is a credit-bearing undergraduate and/or graduate level course. • It integrates service and academic course content so that each significantly informs and enhances the other. • There are plannedbenefits for the community partner and the students; and the service addresses a need and follows processes that are mutually agreed upon by the partner agencies and the instructor. • Student course assessment and credit are based upon the demonstration of student learning. • The course actively guides and supports students in critical reflection regarding the integration of the service and the academic course content.

  5. SL Designated Courses • ~ 80 courses per year, across campus • Vermont and beyond • Meaningful, long-term partnerships • >1800 students & ~30 SL TA’s each year • Undergraduate community-based research • Summer CBR scholarships & internships Academic Service-Learning at UVM

  6. Why Reflection? “…experiential programs begin with two responsibilities for their program design: providing an experience for the learner and facilitating the reflection on that experience. Experience alone is insufficient to be called experiential education, and it is the reflection process that turns experience into experiential education.”

  7. What is Critical Reflection? • provides the bridge between community service activities and the educational content of the course. • directs the student’s attention to new interpretations of events • provides a means through which the community service can be studied and interpreted, much as a text is read and studied for deeper understanding. [Bringle, Hatcher (1999) ]

  8. Reflection Metaphors… 1. The Mirror

  9. Reflection Metaphors… 2. The Bridge

  10. Reflection Metaphors… 3. “Harvesting” the learning

  11. Effectively Structuring Reflection • Assign reflection more than once • Set clear expectations in assignments, including explaining goal of reflection • Ask students to make specific connections to the course concepts or learning goals • Use guiding questions • Use words such as “analysis” • Give word or length guidelines, if appropriate • Provide rubric/grading criteria in advance • Provide examples of student work

  12. What is “Good” Critical Reflection? Student A: Student B: I was really struck by my conversation with Kenny M, the man whose home we cleaned out this weekend. He worked so hard to buy own his own house, then it was all just taken away from him. Elkins et. al (2009) say that low income people and the elderly are the most vulnerable in times of disaster, and my conversation with Kenny really helped to illustrate that in so many ways… • It was amazing to get a chance to work at the mobile home park this weekend; it felt so good to be able to do something for the people who were impacted by Irene. This is what this class is all about, and I’m so glad I signed up!

  13. What is “Good” Critical Reflection? • I was really struck by my conversation with Kenny M, the man whose home we cleaned out this weekend. He worked so hard to buy own his own house, then it was all just taken away from him. Elkins et. al (2009) say that low income people and the elderly are the most vulnerable in times of disaster, and my conversation with Kenny really helped to illustrate that in so many ways… Describes a specific moment of the experience. Cites specific concept learned in class (w/ref). Goes on to illustrate her understanding of that concept.

  14. What is “Good” Critical Reflection?

  15. Continuous Reflection Model During Service Reflection Pre-Service Reflection Post-Service Reflection

  16. For more information www.uvm.edu/partnerships 656-0095, partnerships@uvm.edu Sign up to receive notices of events, trainings and grant opportunities!

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