Project Title : clening beach Write a Personal Reflective Journal, The questions listed in the guidelines are basically to help you write about your personal experiences before, during and after the implementation of the project.

Focus of reflection a. learing experiences -you must identify and define experiences in relation to the project b. Personalisation You must personalise your learning experiences and relate these experiences to yourself. The following question are considered: -How personal is the reflective statement? -how well do you come through in the statement? -how much is learned about you from the statement? -are you telling your own story or just writing an objective historical account? -A good statement will contain mainly "I" statement as opposed to "we" or the "the class".

Ability to reflect a. Describe the initial position or starting point Each statement must have an initial position. The initial position launches the reflective process. You must be able to describe, recall, define and review your past experiences. You cannot reflect on how the key learning experiences have affected you if you have no previous beliefs with which to compare.

b. Desribe the experiences and the effect on the initial position You must describe, by means of examples of specific concrete learning experiences? foci in each statement, which are personally meaningful to you. The experiences described must have some personally meaningful to you. The experiences described must have some particular importance for you and must be in some way connected to the project. You must break down the experiences by examining, questioning, comparing and criticising. You should be able to link the various learning experiences mentioned and make judgments about the effects of these experiences on you. You must write in some depth about the experiences and not just make a series of vague general unconnected statement. You must analyse these experiences by explaining : -how the experiences affected you? In what eay your initial thinking changed as a result of these experiences

You should explain how the chosen experiences have affected you and should evaluate these experiences in simple terms in order to interpret and make sense of the experiences.

The following questions are considered: -how meaningful were the chosen activities to you? -how well have you described and analysed the experiences? -how well have you painted the picture? can your reasoning be clearly followed? waht have you learnt from the experiences? -what interpretations have you made from the experiences? -is the reader left with more questions than answers?

communication effectiveness - how well do your ideas? (clarity/ fluency/neatness/ legibility) -how precise, appropriate is the word choice? - what kind of rhythm and flow is there un the writing? -consideration given to grammar, spelling,capitals, paragraphing

organisation of thought -how organised are your reflections? -how logical is the task? -Is it easy to follow the pattern of thinking? -does it have a beginning , middle and end? -is it mixed up or repetitive in places? - how well is the statement presented?

Summarise the present position You must be able to apply critical thinking and self awereness to draw conclucion based on the analysis of the key learning experiences. The conclucions based on the analysis of the key learning experienced. The conclucions must be justified by means of well-supported statements, example, what you decided as a result of your analysis of the learning experiences and why have you made these decision? You are required to make connections between experiences and selg in order to draw conclusions about your strengths and weakness. If you draw a conclusion, you must justify the statement by saying why you have reached that conclusion.

The following questions are considered: - how are the foci linked? -what level of self-awereness has been demonstrated? -are the conclusions explained? how well? is there evidence supporting conclusi0on? -in reaching the conclusions, how well-linked are the descriptions of the experiences correspond to the degree of self-awereness shown?

outline how the experiences have influenced your outlook for the future You are required to think creatively in order to integrate what has been learned into foward planning and future qoals. You must be able to make connection, example to combine what have been learned from the different experiences into a plan for the future. The plan for the future should be based on what you have a specific plan in mind, ar least in the short-term. The following questions are considered: -how specific is the plan? -are alternatives considered? -how well is the plan linked to the experiences described and the conclusions about self? -how viable is the plan?