The Buffalo State Pedagogical Institute is a week of professional collaboration that develops instructional skills and integrates campus resources. The 2024 Institute is scheduled for May 20–23.  Instructors and coordinators of Student Success, first-year, and general education courses, TRIO personnel, student services professionals, and administrators will benefit from the workshops and discussions. All sessions will be in Bacon 115.

Reflection activities are an essential component of community-engaged learning and other applied learning courses because they connect your students’ projects or work in the community with their course content. This session will begin with a brief overview of the research about the importance of reflection. 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 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 or applied learning course.

Presenter: Laura Hill Rao and Alice Villaseñor