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Reflection Questions For Learning

1. What do you remember about what you learned today? Write down as many things as you
can in 30/60/90 seconds.

2. Of what you remember, what seemed to be the most important ideas? Write down 3-5
things in bullet-point format.

3. What was your role in the learning process today? Did you find information? Interpret it?
Attempt to ‘remember’ it? Complete a task? Listen? Watch? Skim? Try? Combine?
Consider? Evaluate? Calculate? List? Describe? Problem solve? Recall? Create?

4. Were you an active or a passive learner? Did the learning activity allow (or force) you to
be one or the other (active versus passive)?

5. What did you notice others doing during today’s lesson? Include other students, the
teacher, etc. Infer cognitive behaviors (what they were doing ‘in their minds’) along with
listing physical and observable behaviors.
Metacognitive Questions For Learning

6. When were you at your best today?

7. What opportunities did you have today? Which were worthy of your attention, energy, or
best thinking? Did you take them?

8. What did you assume about today’s learning before we started? How did that affect your
learning (for better or for worse)?

9. What was your mindset before, during, and after the lesson?

10. What are you sure you understand about _____?

11. What do you think you might understand about _____?

12. What are you sure you misunderstand about _____?

Nature Of Knowledge Reflective Questions

13. What do you suspect that you might misunderstand about ____?

14. What is the difference between misunderstanding and not yet knowing?

15. What do you already know that you can use to think about or learn _____?

16. How do you know that you understand _____?

17. How do you know that you don’t understand ______?

18. How did you respond when struggled with today (if you did)?

19. What did you find most surprising about _____?

20. How did your understanding of _______ change today?

21. Of what you learned, how much of it was new, and how much of it have you seen before?

22. What about _____ makes you curious?

23. How is ____ similar to _____?

24. How does what you learned relate to what you already knew?

25. So? So What? What now? (Summarize what you learned, roughly explain its significance,
and estimate what you might/could/should do next in response.)
Bonus: Consider the ‘form’ of learning you used. What other forms could have been used and
what would effect might the use of those other forms have had on your learning? Think of
sitting and listening versus standing and speaking. Think working alone versus working with
others or watching a video versus reading a book versus listening to a podcast. How might
the nature of what you learn (the topic or skill or concept being learned) dictate the ideal
learning form?

Put another way, how does the learning content and/or goal affect the best ways to learn it?

Learning Reflection Questions For Students

Also, I previously create questions students can ask themselves before, during, and after
learning to improve their thinking, retention, and metacognition. A few highlights from the
‘after learning’ (which qualify them as reflective questions for learning) include:

1. How did that go?

What did I obviously learn? What might I have learned or practiced or improved my
understanding of that may not be obvious?

What was most interesting? Least? How can I learn new things if I’m not ‘interested in’ what
I’m learning? What do others do in these cases to learn?

What was clear and what was confusing and what was somewhere in the middle? What do I
still ‘need help’ with? Who can I talk to about the lesson to review key ideas or clarify
misunderstandings?

2. What seems most important about what was learned?

What seems less important and what seems more important about what was learned? Or is
this something where what was learned doesn’t have a clear hierarchy?

After the lesson, is what seems most important any different than how things seemed before
and during the lesson? How and why?

3. What should I do with what I’ve learned and how should I respond to what I didn’t
learn?

What should I do with what I learned and know? What will I be able to do with this–both
now and if and when I improve my understanding of it?

Who should I ‘tell’ or share this with? Who would care and/or benefit the most?

4. Based on what we learned today, what might we learn tomorrow?

Where does what we’re learning seem to be ‘heading’? When we’ve learned things like this
in the past, what happens next?
What could I learn about this tomorrow with help? By myself? What might someone who
knows this better than I do ‘learn next’?

5. How have I been changed by what I’ve learned?

How do I feel about this content? Interested? Enthusiastic? Curious? Bored? Indifferent?

How else could I learn this–maybe better? How might I think of this learning in 40 days? 40
weeks? 40 months? 40 years?

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