Communication Strategies Faculty Resources: Reflecting

Your students will use reflection skills when they:

• Write reflection assignments for their courses.
• Apply the growth mindset, and think about a challenge they've had and what they could do differently to make things easier next time. 
• Have had a conflict with someone and think about how to repair the relationship
• Made a bad choice and want to be prepared to make a better choice next time.
• Are planning ahead for group work and want to achieve the best outcome.
• Think about how much they have learned during a course and how this will help in the workplace.

Read about developing this strategy with your students in the Faculty Blog post: Communication Strategies: Reflecting

To learn about reflective writing, students can:

• Watch this video: Reflective Writing
• Read this document: Reflective writing: A basic introduction
• Watch this YouTube video: Reflective Writing

To learn about how to reflect on an experience, students can:

• Read this website: Gibb's Reflective Cycle

To learn about how to reflect on a personal experience and develop an growth mindset:

• Watch this YouTube video: Reflecting on a Personal Experience Using the "What, So What, Now What" Model

Faculty can access the following resources through Library & Academic Services to help their students develop this strategy:

• Developing Study Strategies workshop, for full-class support with reflecting on and develop study strategies that work for each student.
• Diversity Training workshop series to develop Intercultural competence, cultural awareness, self-awareness, and reflection skills needed to study and work successfully in today’s global environment
• Online Learning hybrid LEARNing module  for asynchronous resources that can be embedded within a LEARN course to help students reflect on the best practices for online learning, and to enhance their productivity, time-management, and overall wellness while learning online.

Students can access the following resources through Library & Academic Services to develop this strategy:

• Tutoring for individualized and small group support, to help reflect on course content.
• Writing Tutoring, for individualized in-person and email support to develop reflective writing skills.  
• EAL Tutoring, for individualized language development for students whose first language is not English to develop reflective skills for both academic and workplace success.
• Academic Coaching, to develop the academic skills relating to reflection and meta-cognition.