Submit 6 one-page, single-spaced reflection papers, in Times New Roman font, with 1-inch margins all around. Reflection papers need to be submitted on CANVAS prior to class, on their due date.
You will need to integrate the main themes of the readings with their classroom experiences, and explain how both affect your thinking and practice.
1) A reflection paper is meant to assist you with aligning themes from the readings, classroom discussions and activities, and documentaries, and discussing how those main themes affect both your thinking and (future) practice.
2) A reflection paper is your chance to add your thoughts and analysis to what you have read and experienced in class.
3) A reflection paper is meant to illustrate your understanding of the material and how it affects your ideas and possible practice in future.
4) You can begin by jotting down some of the reading material and class experiences that stand out in your mind. Decide why they stand out to you.
5) Students can relate the readings, classroom discussions and activities, and documentaries to yourself and your previous knowledge and experience, as well as contemporary issues in the world.
6) Consider if and how what you have read and learned changes your thinking and might affect your practice in both personal and professional situations.
7) Review the readings and class notes to be sure you’ve included all the relevant information you can and made all the connections that stand out to you.
8) Reflection papers must have an opening paragraph, main body, and conclusion.
9) It may be helpful to write the body of the paper first by using Steps 4-6, and then decide what your opening paragraph should say. The opening paragraph and conclusion may be brief, only a several sentences, but it should offer some overall statement of your perspective based on what you’ve learned, and in what ways it has changed your perspective and future practices.
10) Include in-text references and a reference page for any materials you cite using APA citation formatting.
Grading Rubric
16-20 points Papers in this point range:
• Critically relate concepts/themes in readings to one another.
• Find creative ways relate readings to classroom discussions and activities, and documentary films shown in class.
• Make clear references about how the subject matter relates to contemporary issues in the world or in students own life.
• Spend little space describing readings, but focuses on analysis.
• Is exactly 1 full single-spaced typed page.
11-15 points Papers in this point range:
• Relate the readings to one another, but misses pointing out some key differences or similarities.
• Provide equal description and analysis of readings, rather than focusing on analysis.
• May not relate subject matter to real world issues or self.
• Does not or minimally related readings to larger class concepts.
• May go over or under 1 full page.
6-10 points Papers in this point range:
• Address only one reading (if there is more than one), and/or do so in s superficial manner.
• Focus primarily on describing readings rather than concepts, and have little to no analysis.
• Perhaps relates readings back to real life, but only superficially.
• Does not (or cursorily) relate readings to larger class concepts.
• Goes considerably over or under 1 full page.
1-5 points Papers in this point range:
• Only address one reading and do so in a superficial matter.
• Makes clear that little thought or effort were places in the writing of the paper.
