What is your role at the community site?

Learning Goal: I’m working on a writing question and need guidance to help me learn.

Submit responses to whatever reflection questions you select below in a 5-page, double-spaced paper.

• What is your role at the community site?
• What were your initial expectations? Have these expectations changed? How? Why?
• What about your community involvement has been an eye-opening experience?
• How do you motivate yourself to go to your site when you don’t feel like it?
• What specific skills have you used at your community site?
• Describe a person you’ve encountered in the community who made a strong impression on you, positive or
• Do you see benefits of doing community work? Why or why not?
• Has your view of the population with whom you have been working changed? How?
• How has the environment and social conditions affected the people at your site?
• What institutional structures are in place at your site or in the community? How do they affect the people you work with?
• Has the experience affected your worldview? How?
• Have your career options been expanded by your service experience?
• Why does the organization you are working for exist?
• Did anything about your community involvement surprise you? If so, what?
• What did you do that seemed to be effective or ineffective in the community?
• Did anything about your community involvement surprise you? If so, what?
• What did you do that seemed to be effective or ineffective in the community?
• How does your understanding of the community change as a result of your participation in this project?
• How can you continue your involvement with this group or social issue?
• How can you educate others or raise awareness about this group or social issue?
• What are the most difficult or satisfying parts of your work? Why?
• Talk about any disappointments or successes of your What did you learn from it?
• During your community work experience, have you dealt with being an “outsider” at your site? How does being an “outsider” differ from being an “insider”?
• How are your values expressed through your community work?
• What sorts of things make you feel uncomfortable when you are working in the community? Why?
• Complete this sentence: Because of my service-learning, I …