Setting Up Reflections

Focus: What kind of reflection do you want today?

You can set up the focus for the reflection by choosing one of six options: 4F, Retrieval, Depth of Knowledge, Collaboration, Problem Solver, Creative Booster. The automatically generated prompts will differ depending on the focus you choose. You will find the detailed description of each focus type below. 

 

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4F

What?

Based on the 4F framework (Facts, Feelings, Findings, Future), a basic but broad reflection experience to stretch your thinking.

Why?

Quick and easy reflections, and tailored to any objective you set.

 

Retrieval

What?

A brain dump exercise to examine what a learner remembers from a given experience.

Why?

Forcing the brain to recall experiences helps to solidify new knowledge we have been presented.

 

Depth of Knowledge

What?

Push students through the first three levels of Webb’s Depth of Knowledge framework around a stated objective; recall, apply knowledge, and strategic thinking.

Why?

See how deep learners can go when it comes to explaining important concepts. This is all about building complex thinking skills.

 

Improving Relationships*

What?

Talk about your experience working with others to speak to your mastery of Casel.org’s competencies around relationship building.

Why?

In and out of school, learners need to develop the ability to get along with and collaborate with others.

 

Self-Authorship*

What?

Based on Harvard researcher, Robert Kegan’s work, this focus gets learners talking about their journey to a self-authoring mind where adults come into their own and their behavior becomes directed by the strongest sense of the self.

Why?

Kegan reminds us that we can always grow and get better. Pushing ourselves to think about experiences from multiple perspectives and not just from the lens of social norms helps us improve day to day.

 

Collaboration

What?

Reflect on specifically how you are effectively collaborating with others, aligned with 21st Century Skills standards.

Why?

Much of our work depends on our ability to convince others, empathize with others, listen, and more.

 

Problem Solver

What?

Come to the table with any problem you’d like to solve and walk away with a new perspective on that problem ready to start solutioning.

Why?

Sometimes we need help reframing the problems we face and this focus takes you through a structured and time-tested problem solving process.



Creative Booster

What?

Just state something you’d like to create and get guided through a structured design thinking process to get the creative juices flowing.
Why?

Sometimes we need a jolt of inspiration. This focus helps to examine a design problem from numerous angles so you walk away ready to start building.

 

*Available only for Adult Team groups. 



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