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Assignment: Reflection Paper Content
Guidelines for Summative Reflection Paper
The course paper should be summative and should reflect on your entire experience working at your host site.
Consider using following outline or the questions on the next page to write the reflection paper.
I. Organization/Program
Question A. Write a brief sketch of the organization/program. Identify its goals and mission. Comment on your perception of its strengths and weaknesses.
Question B. Summarize the history. Describe the culture of the organization: dress, level of formality, physical structure of offices and how they are assigned, staff meeting style, the hierarchy, worker input in decision-making, values, and reward system.
Question C. Describe the organization/program's structure and your role in it.
II. Change
Question A. Describe changes in your perception of the organization during this experience. What original assumptions have been changed?
Question B. In what ways has your understanding deepened?
III. Learning Objectives
Question A. Describe the challenges and successes in your efforts to accomplish each of your initial objectives. Be specific.
Question B. What feedback did you receive?
Question C. Identify the specific outcomes for each objective, including any changes that were necessary.
IV. Academic Connections
Question A. In what ways has this experience related to what you have learned in the classroom?
Question B. What are the connections between this experience and the knowledge you have gleaned from your academic work?
V. Personal Development
Question A. Describe the skills you acquired or polished during this experience. Describe the specific contributions you made (the way the role was different because you were in that role).
Question B. Comment on whether this role seemed to fit your talents, abilities, values, and interests.
Question C. Identify the extent of your personal growth. How did it affect your strengths and weaknesses? Comments on how this experience relates to your future.
Question VI. Evaluation Summarize your experience in a final paragraph.