How to Guide to Reflection, (A): Adding Cognitive Learning to Community Service Programs

Reflection is seen as one way to update the learning process in schools to better prepare students with short attention spans and a need to digest growing amounts of information. Reflection allows that knowledge is constructed symbolically by the mind through social interaction with others. This handbook outlines classroom tactics to promote reflection such as journal writing, directed writing, oral reflection on feelings, student as expert, and cognitive teaching. Specific projects are discussed, reflection activities to be used with service-learning projects, and learning guideposts and facilitator notes to be used by teachers. The appendix includes more classroom projects to be used by teachers. Partial Contents: The Need for Service-Learning and Reflective Teaching / Learning Environments: How Do We Learn ... / Dissecting Reflective Teaching Methods / The Reflection Process ... / Conducting Research on Reflection Activities in Service-Learning - Alan Waterman / Standards of Quality ... / Practical Suggestions for Reflection - Diane Hedin and Dan Conrad / Projects - Tom Peters.