Reflective Blog Instructions: A Novel Approach for Students

Reflective Blog- The purpose of this type of blog is for you to reflect on the work you did over the past week, and give you a plan to improve as a student. 

 You must answer ONE question in each section, and except for the image, the answers should be in paragraph form, and give specific examples/details.

Summary

·         Briefly state what you learned this week.  

Image

·         Include one image directly related to the topic (this can be a graph, illustration, picture, etc).

Backward-Looking: 

·         How much did you know about the topic before we started? What do you now know about the topic that you did not know before?

·         Have you done a similar kind of work in the past (earlier in the year or in a previous grade; in school or out of school)? 

·         In what ways have you gotten better at this kind of work? 

·         In what ways do you think you need to improve? 

·         What problems did you encounter while you were working this week? How did you solve them? 

·         What resources did you use while working this week? Which ones were especially helpful? Which ones would you use again?

Inward-Looking: 

·         How do you feel about your work this week? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? 

·         What was especially satisfying to you about your work this week?

·         What did/do you find frustrating about the work done this week? 

·         What were your goals for this week? Did your goals change as you worked? Did you meet your goals? 

·         What does your work this week reveal about you as a learner? 

·         What did you learn about yourself as you worked this week? 

·         Have you changed any ideas you used to have on this subject? How/Why?

·         What does your work this week tell you about yourself and how you learn? 

Outward-Looking: 

·         Did you do your work the way other people did theirs? How was it similar or different from others?

·         If you were the teacher, what comments would you make about your work this week? 

·         What grade would you give yourself? Why? 

·         What is the one thing you particularly want people to notice when they look at your work? 

·         What do your classmates particularly notice about your work when they look at it? 

·         In what ways does your work meet the standards for this assignment? In what ways does it not meet the standards? 

·         If someone else were looking at your work what might they learn about who you are?

Forward-Looking: 

·         One thing I would like to improve upon is ... 

·         What would you change if you had a chance to redo the work over again? 

·         What's the one thing that you have seen in your classmates' work or process that you would like to try next week? 

·         As you look your work, what's one thing that you would like to try to improve upon? 

·         What's one goal you would like to set for yourself for next week? 

·         What things you might want more help with? 

·         What work would you show your teacher to help her understand what you need help with?