Summary: Reflection activities are an essential component of community-engaged learning courses because they connect your students’ work in the community with their course content. This session, facilitated by Alice Villaseñor, the Civic and Community Engagement Associate Director, will begin with a brief overview of the research about the importance of reflection in community-engaged learning courses. The bulk of our time will be spent participating in a reflection activity and discussion of reflection assignments across various disciplines. Participants will walk away with practical resources they can use when planning their future community-engaged learning courses.

Please come prepared to participate and share the kinds of reflection assignments you have found to be useful in your own discipline. This session is appropriate for both skilled community-engaged learning practitioners and those who have yet to teach a community-engaged learning course.

Presenter: Alice Villaseñor