Thinking about your service experience is a helpful way to reflect on your thoughts and feelings about your service activities. By reflecting on your involvement, you can better understand the experience, appreciate your feelings, and deepen your commitment to making a difference in the community.
These questions can serve as a guide in your personal reflection:
How can this experience help me to become a man or woman for others?
How does this experience relate to things I am learning in my academic course regarding course goals, objectives, content, or themes?
What did I learn about myself and others from this experience?
In what ways did this experience challenge and affirm my values?
What emotions did I experience while I was involved in this experience?
What did I gain from this experience? What did I contribute?
What is it important for me to be involved in service?
What have I learned in other parts of my life (e.g. family, classes, cultural heritage, religious training) that helps me better understand this experience?
How might my efforts contribute to or hinder social change?
Service-Learning gives you a chance to apply the concepts you learn in class to the real world. In addition to being a great opportunity to build your resume and portfolio, it also gives you a great opportunity to service the community and helps you become men and women with and for others.
You have a certain number of hours to give to service. Please be faithful to your commitment.
See what you can learn about the course material from your community experience.
See how the goals or objectives or basic concepts of your course may apply to your service experience.