Reflection+Questions

The 40 Reflection Questions Backward - Looking: 1. How m uch did you kn ow about the subject bef or e w e started? 2. What process did you go through to produce this piece? 3. Have you done a similar kind of work in the past (earlier in the year or in a previous grade; in s c h o o l o r o u t o f s c h o o l ) ? 4. I n w hat w ays have you g otten better at this kind of w ork? 5. I n w hat w ays d o you think you ne ed to i mpr ove ? 6. What problems did you encoun ter while you were working on this piece? How did you solve them? 7. What resources did you use while working on this piece? Which ones were especially helpful? Which ones would you use again? 8. Doe s this w ork tell a story? Inward - Looking: 9. How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece or work? 10. What was especially satisfying to you about either the process or the finished product? 11. What did/do you find frustrating about it? 12. What w ere your standard s f or this pie ce of w ork? 13. Did you meet your standards? 14. What w ere your goal s f or meeting this piece of w or k? Did your goals change as you w orked on it? Did you m e e t y o u r g o a l s ? 15. What does this piece reveal about you as a learne r? 16. What did you learn about yourself as you worked on this piece? 17. Have you change d an y i deas you used to have on this subject? 18. Find another piece of work that you did at the beginning of the year to compare and contrast with this what change s can you see? 19. How did those chan ge s c ome about? 20 . What does that tell you about yourself and how you learn? Outward - Looking: 21. Did you do your work the way other people did theirs? 22. I n w hat w ays did you d o i t differently? 23. In what ways was your work or process similar? 24. I f you w ere the teacher, w hat comments w ould you make about this piece? 25. What grade w ould you give it? Wh y? 26. What the one thing you particularly want people to notice when they look at your work? 27. What do your classmates particularly notice about yo ur pi e ce w h en th e y l ook at it ? 28. In what ways did your work meet the standards for this assignment? 29. I n w hat w ays did it not m eet those standard s? 30. If someone else were looking at the piece, what might they learn about w h o y o u a r e ? Forward - Looking: 31. One thing I w ould like to i mprove up on is ... 32. What would you change if you had a chance to do this piece over again? 33. What will you change in the next revision of this piece? 34. What's the one thing that you have seen in your classmates' work or process that you would like to tr y i n your next piec e? 35. As you l ook at thi s p ie c e, w h at 's on e th in g t hat you w oul d lik e t o t r y t o i mp r ov e up on ? 36. What's one goal you w oul d like to set f or yourself f or next time? 37. What would you like to spend more time on in school? 38. What might you wa nt next year's teacher to know about you (what things you're good at)? 39. What things you might want more help with? 40. What work would you show her to help her understand those things?