Reflection Essay – Working with Community
Learning Objectives
- Explain the role of citizen involvement in community organisations and the function of such organisations in meeting individual and/or community needs.
- Critically appraise the contributions made by you in your volunteering role to the work of your internship organisation.
- Critically appraise your personal and professional skills and values in the context of your role in your internship organisation.
- Demonstrate a range of future relevant employability skills including: communication, teamwork, problem-solving, initiative and enterprise, planning and organising, self-management.
Assessment
This assessment provides students with the opportunity to critically reflect on and evaluate their growing personal and professional development though the lived experience of the internship.
Your Internship Portfolio is comprised of the following components:
- Reflective Journal
- This assessment will form the basis for the critical analysis for the internship experience.
- Minimum 5 entries.
- Suggested word count: 200 words per entry (Total around 1000 words).
- You will reflect on the activities you undertake as part of your internship and how these might contribute to your employability. Consider referring to selection criteria in job advertisements for guidance about what kind of activities would be suitable.
- Also include reflections on the highlights of the challenges and achievements throughout the internship, in line with the course materials.
- You are required to demonstrate your learning by critically reflecting on your internship practice by examining:
- the working/professional environment
- the key issues currently facing the particular industry
- any ethical moral or workplace issues encountered.
- You will be assessed on the demonstrated regularity and the quality of the reflections, along with appropriate links to course concepts, modules, lectures and workshops as they occur throughout the internship. This means we look at the evidence and development of engagement with theoretical concepts and critical evaluation of the experience in light of the academic content of the course. Regular entries (minimum of 5) are a key element of consideration by the markers.
- Supporting documents on critical reflection and reflective journaling are available in the Support Resources Folder for your reference.
- You should include the following reflection Task in your journals
Reflection Background
SDGs are a globally recognised set of 169 targets and 232 metrics to improve the wellbeing of people and the planet. The context of the goals is situated at a national level however its up to all people and organisations to determine how they can contribute to the goals. There are many frameworks that can be applied from the 1) personal (Yes – there students at Griffith who have adopted the SDGs to become more sustainable in their lives) to the 2) organisational (all large organisation to various degrees have adopted the SDGs). Depending on the purpose of an organisation there are two domains of SDG impact – one is their internal operations and the other outputs or effects of their activities. For social/environmental impact oriented organisations the latter defines the purpose of the organisation.
Reflection Task
How has your knowledge of SDGs changed since undertaking the internship and how can your knowledge of SDGs be applied to organisations you may work for in the future to achieve greater impact.
Writer your reflective journal
- Open Microsoft Word and commence writing your Reflective Journal as a new document.
- Continue returning to this document as needed.
- A minimum of 5 entries are required (around 200 words each – total for journal should be 1000 words).