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Reflection #2: End of Semester Reflection
The purpose of this paper is to provide you with an opportunity to reflect on your learning
experience throughout the course. You may format the paper as either a letter to yourself or as a
letter to a future student taking the course. If addressing the letter to yourself, write about
how you will take your newly acquired knowledge and apply it to your life and future
coursework/career. If addressing it to a future student, discuss strategies that would help them
be successful in the course and what you might have done differently if you had known then
what you know now.
Below are questions to help guide your thinking in writing the letter:
1. Reflect on your thinking, learning, and work throughout the course. What are you most proud
of? Most disappointed in?
2. Where did you encounter struggle, and what did you do to deal with it?
3. What about your thinking, learning, or work brought you the most satisfaction? Why?
4. What was the one most useful or meaningful thing you learned in this course/program?
5. What is frustrating you? How do you plan to deal with that frustration?
6. What lessons were learned from failure throughout the course? What lessons were learned
from success? How will you incorporate those lessons into your life?
7. Where did you meet success, and who might benefit most from what you have learned along
the way? How can you share this with them?
Professor Kirsten Tekavec
April 19, 2018
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8. What are your next steps? Which of those steps will come easiest? Where will the terrain
become rocky? What can you do now to navigate the road ahead with the most success?
9. How do you feel about yourself as a future employee/manager/entrepreneur within the
hospitality industry?
10. What made you curious?
11. How did I help you? How did I hinder you? How can you deal with leaders in your life more
effectively in the future so that you get the most out of your experience with them?
12. How did you help the class? How did you hinder the class? What can you do in the future to
help other learners grow and develop?
13. If you were to take this course again, would you do anything differently (please specify)?
Why or why not?
Reminder for Students
***Critical reflection requires that you engage in a reasoning process to make meaning out of
learning/experiences, so it should follow the “what,” “so what,” “now what” format.
