Please reflect...

Reflection and  evidence  form an important part of your CAS portfolio.  It is these that will be used to measure if you have met the 7 learning outcomes.  It is important that you think about the learning outcomes that you chose for your experience when reflecting.  If you chose 'engaging with issues of global significance,' make sure that your reflection and evidence show how you met this outcome.

Reflections should not just be about how fantastic you are and what you achieved.  They should also be about what you could differently, what you did wrong, what impact your experience had on you and others etc.  The following is an excerpt from the CAS guide.

Elements of a Reflection

•       Describe what happened.  Memorable moments, obstacles, difficulties, successes.
•       Expressing feelings.  Show how you felt about your experiences.
•       Generating ideas. Rethinking or re-examining choices.
•       Asking questions. Questions about people, processes or issues

     Remember to relate to the learning outcome as much as possible.  These are the questions that appear on  Managebac the first time you reflect on an experience:

      To guide your reflection, you may consider the following at different stages of an activity (prior to starting, during, and after completion):

• What do you perceive and notice?
• How you feel being involved?
• What do you think and feel about the activity itself?
• What does the activity mean to you?
• What value does the activity have?
• What did you learn from this activity, and how might you extrapolate from this to apply any lesson to your life more generally?

   

    

    Your reflection could be a series of questions that you ask yourself about what you did and how it impacts (or doesn't) on the community.  You do not need to praise your experience but to be critical of it.

   Deadlines

   Please see the previous post for important deadlines regarding evidence and reflection.