Reflection and Self-Evaluation:

Broad Overview:
What did I plan to do?
What did I do?
What were the outcomes, for me, the team I was working with, and
others affected by the activity?
*Details: consider when needed or appropriate, the perspectives of
yourself and others during each state of the activity.
- Summarize what you did in the activity and how you interacted with
others. Include planning, fulfillment, and any follow-up.
-Explain what you wished to accomplish through this activity and how
these goals were fulfilled (or not:
it seems that IB people love it
when things don't work out and you are able to reflect on it) and/or how
they evolved into other accomplishments and goals. What was the
VALUE of the activity to you and others involved?
-Address problems, difficulties, and challenges faced in the completion
of the activity and how they affected you, the project, and the final
outcome.
- Detail which of the 8 Key Learning Outcomes were accomplished and
how those outcomes affected you and those whom you worked.

8 Key Learning Outcomes:

1. Increased their awareness of their own strengths and areas for
growth
- They are able to see themselves as individuals with various skills
and abilities, some more developed
than others, and understand that they can make choices about how
they wish to move forward.

2. Undertaken new challenges

- These may be unfamiliar activities, or extensions to existing ones.
3. Planned and initiated activities
- Planning and initiation can be independent or in collaboration with
others.
4. Worked collaboratively with others
- At least one project, involving collaboration and the integration of at
least two areas of CAS (Creativity,
Action Service) is required.
5. Shown perseverance and commitment in their activities
- At a minimum, this implies attending regularly and accepting a share
of the responsibility for dealing with
problems that arise in the course of activities.
6. Engaged with issues of global importance
- Students should be involved in at least one international project.
Global issues can be acted upon locally
or nationally, if the student's activities benefit a population outside
the USA.
7. Considered the ethical implications of their actions
- Evidence of thinking about and considering ethical issues can be
shown in various ways, including journal
entries and conversations with CAS advisers.
Now, I had a tough time with this one for a while, but here are some
questions to get your mind rolling:
- In what ways did you act with integrity and honesty in this
activity?
- In what ways did you find the activity required you to make
reasoned, ethical decisions?
- How did the activity expose the attributes of a good team
worker/leader?

- How did this activity expose the attributes of a good person?

- Did participating in the activity provoke emotions in you or the
participants, and how were these
emotions dealt with?
- Did the activity assist in introducing or reinforcing obligations that
we have as a member of society?
- Were there any issues raised in this activity that relate to
maintaining a sustainable natural or economic
movement?
- What are some of the key personal attributes required to work
fairly and justly with other people? How
were they evident inthis activity?
- Were you required to adhere to any rules/obligations in doing this
activity? How well did you adhere to
them?
- Did participating in the activity question or conflict in any way with
the cultural/social/religious
guidelines in which the activity
was held?
Whew
8. Developed new skills
- New skills may be shown in activities that the student has not
previously undertaken, or in increased
expertise in an established area.
1. Pre-Reflection:
1. What goals do I hope to accomplish?
2. Which learner objectives do you hope to meet?
2. Post-Reflection:
1. Did you meet the goals you set out?
2. Why or why not?
3. What learner objectives did you meet?

4. Why or why not?

5. If you could do this activity again, what would you do differently?
3. Specifically....
1. Increased awareness of strengths/weaknesses
i.

Did this activity humble you?

ii.

Boost your self confidence?

iii.

Why werent you aware of this strength/weakness before?

iv.

How do you feel now that youre aware of it?

v.

Why is it important for us to know our strengths? Our

weaknesses?

2. Undertaken new challenges:

i.

What was so challenging?

ii.

Why was it challenging?

iii.

Have you done anything similar before?

iv.

How did you overcome this challenge?

v.

If you didnt overcome it, why not and what will you do
differently next time?

vi.

How do you feel about having undertaken this challenge?

vii.

Why is it important for you to undertake new challenges?

3. Planned and initiated activities:

i.

How did you organize yourself?

ii.

Are you usually an organized person?

4. How did any current skills you already have help you in the planning
of this activity?
i.

Did you discover any skills you hadnt known or learned yet
that you had to use
for the planning and initiating of this activity?

ii.

What was harder? The planning or the initiating? Why?

iii.

Do you think planning or initiating anything in the future will

be easier now/

iv.

Why is it important to know how to plan and initiate

activities?

5. Worked collaboratively:
i.

Is working with others generally easy or hard for you? Why?

ii.

So, based on your answer to the above question, was this

particular activity easy
or hard for you to work with others?

iii.

Did you have to work with anyone difficult? How did you
handle it?

iv.

Why is it important to be able to work collaboratively with

others?

6. Showed perseverance and commitment:

i.

What made this activity difficult where perseverance or

commitment was
necessary? How did that make you feel?

ii.

Is it easy for you to commit to things? To be persistent? Why

or why not?

iii.

Why is showing perseverance and commitment important?

7. Engaged with issues of global importance:

i.

What were the issues?

ii.

Why are they important globally? How? Where? How did you
know?

iii.

How does knowing about global issues contribute to your

personal growth?

iv.

How does it make you feel now that you are aware of this
global issue?

v.

How does your work in this CAS activity make you feel about
that global issue?

8. Consider ethical implications:

i.

Do you understand what ethics are?

ii.

How do you know if something is ethical? How did you learn

that?

iii.

What ethical issues were involved in this activity? Explain.

iv.

Did the ethical issues affect you directly or indirectly?

v.

How did the issue make you feel? What was your opinion on
this issue before this activity? Has it changed or stayed the
same after this activity?

vi.

What could you do to increase the awareness of others about

this issue?

vii.

Why is an ethical education important?

9. Develop new skills:

i.

What new skills did I develop?

ii.

Why did you not have them before?

iii.

How could this skill be useful to you in the future?

iv.

How does having this new skill make you feel about yourself?

v.

Why is it important to learn new skills?

4. How did this activity build and part of the learner profile in me? What
learner profile characteristics did I develop in this activity?