10 Self-Reflection Questions for the End of the School Year
Self-reflection helps you to analyze your professional and personal growth. By keeping a record of your ideas, reasons, actions, techniques, and assessments you can plan for your future and facilitate a positive outcome. Take a few minutes to look back on the past school year. Use these 10 open-ended questions to ask yourself at the end of the school year (or any time of year)!
10 Self-Reflection Questions for the End of the School Year
What was your biggest accomplishment at work this year?
What do you wish you did more of at work?
Name one thing that would have made the school year more enjoyable.
What was your biggest failure at work this year?
What was your favorite goal that a student achieved this year?
What was the hardest goal for a student to achieve this year?
Name one thing you would like to change next year at work.
Name one supply, resource, book, etc. you would like to have next year at work.
Name one way that you can help your colleagues more next year.
Name three ways how you can become better at your job next year.
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Reflective Journaling for Therapists, Teachers, Parents and Students digital download includes the materials to help you analyze your personal and professional growth. By keeping a record of your ideas, reasons, actions, techniques, and assessments you can play for your future and facilitate a positive outcome.FIND OUT MORE.
Students Benefit from Self-Refection Too!
Have you ever considered having the students you currently work use self-reflection to help create a list of advice or tips for other students for the next school year? You could ask the children to submit tips and suggestions that make functional tasks easier for them. This activity will hopefully empower the children to see that they can help others (and sneak in handwriting practice if they need it). It may also allow them to think about different aspects of functional tasks possibly leading to goal setting for the following school year.
My Memory Book digital download encourages self reflection for students on accomplishments, improvements, challenges, goals and more. Students can practice handwriting and drawing skills while creating a memory keepsake book. This download includes the materials to create one 11 page memory book (available in three different font styles).
Suggestions for Student Self-Reflection Questions
1. What do you do to be more organized at school?
2. What is your favorite physical education activity to participate in?
3. If an activity has to be adapted for you to participate in gym class or recess, what have you found to be the most helpful adaptation?
4. Is there anything that makes getting dressed easier for you?
5. Is there a certain entrance to the school you find easiest to enter in at?
6. Is there a staircase that is easier to navigate than others?
7. Is there a bathroom at the school that is easier to use than others?
You don’t even need to suggest these questions. Maybe just throw it out there to the students from now until the end of the school year. Set up an easel in the therapy room or carry a note pad. When a student thinks of a tip write it down. Once all the suggestions have been gathered, organize them into categories. Then next school year hand out your tip sheet to all the students on your caseload.
Here is a practice sheet from the My Memory Book complete packet. You can download below for free. It is available in single line, dotted line (Zaner-Bloser type format) and double line (Handwriting Without Tears type format).
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Want to take it one step further? Ask parents for their tips and suggestions to complete functional skills for a successful school year. Make this information available to parents the following school year.
Want more ideas about self-reflection questions? Try these exit ticket examples.