Assignment Task:
Reflection Exercise Assignment Instructions
Overview:
You will complete four Reflection Exercise Assignments in this course. As you develop and move through this course, it is important that you can reflect on, report, and assess your learning throughout your educational journey. These reflection assignments will support your comprehension of new material and connections to learning theories and instructional practices you already know and use.
Instructions:
Each reflection should address the concepts and principles most meaningful to you during your study. Reflections are NOT to be just a summary of your reading/study. Reflections synthesize new information with prior personal experience and demonstrate your growth of knowledge and skill.
Reflections are 2 - 3 pages of well-organized prose integrating your observations and questions about the course material with at least five current (i.e., published within the last five years) scholarly sources. Use APA formatting, including title and reference pages. An abstract is not required. The title and references pages do not count towards the 2 - 3-page requirements.
As you organize your reflection, include the following elements:
1. A brief introduction paragraph that builds the foundation for your reflection on this module's Learn material.
2. A discussion of new ideas. What new ideas (theories, methods, etc.) did you learn from this module's Learn material? What was your favorite/most meaningful idea from the readings? Why? You might want to quote a short piece that you feel is an important idea or something you would like to remember for yourself or share with others.
3. Connections. How does this module's Learn material relate to other materials you have read as a student, including materials from other courses as well as from this course? Do you predict you will use this information in the future, and if so, why?
4. Share experiences/memories. Comment on whether and how this module's Learn material relates to your own experiences, either your own history as a student or what's going on in your classroom/workplace now. Does the information in the material remind you of anything? What comes to mind as you are reading or watching the selections?
Write about these experiences or memories.
5. Ask questions. What confuses you? What don't you understand? Is there anything with which you disagree? What do you want to be sure to have clarified?
6. Above all, react. Write about your reactions to this module's Learn material, giving examples and reasons for your reaction. Do you think others will feel the same way?
See the Reflection Exercise Example provided with this assignment for a sample excerpt of reflective writing.