PMGT 5872 – Sem 2_2022 - Individual Reflection
Assignment Guidelines and Rubric

Length: 1000 words (+/- 10%) - Worth: 10%

The purpose of a reflection report is for students to communicate with their teaching team
about how the specific workshops, lessons, new knowledge or experiences shape their
understanding and application of the content of PMGT 5872 People and Leadership.

From Day 1, start a personal journal to note down your personal observations and reflections.
While your journal may not be well-organised, that is all right, as you do not need to submit
the journal. Only the reflection report needs to be submitted for formal assessment.


Expectations of your reflection report

1. The purpose of the Individual Reflection Report is to develop your ability to reflect as
a practitioner using the People and Leadership insights and activities experienced in
this unit.
2. You need to reference and use any of the reflective frameworks and tools (e.g. KOLB,
Takeuchi & Nonaka, Argyris & Schon, or others) to provide insight into your
personal learning experiences of this unit (information / videos about the reflective
frameworks were made available in Module 1).
3. You are expected to compare and contrast what is stated in the literature, your
observations and your experiences in working in your team as well as your own
individual experiences with the learning material and assessment tasks, and point out
what is similar or different in reality. It is helpful if you were to apply some of your
personal learnings through experimentation (e.g. see KOLB's learning cycle) and
reflecting on the outcomes.
4. While reflection reports are personal and subjective, they should still maintain a high
level, high quality professional and academic tone. The submission for the reflection
report is expected to be thorough, in-depth, well-organised and well-structured and
covering topics from at least 8 out of 13 workshops.
5. A reflection report should not focus on merely describing your observations, readings
and experiences. You should aim for an in-depth analysis of how your experiences
contributed to your understanding of yourself, others, and/or the subject’s concepts.
6. You will need to demonstrate how you apply the reflections and learnings and make
interconnections to a broader context of personal and professional life. Examine your
own learning process, demonstrate what learning has occurred, how it occurred, and
how your newly acquired knowledge or learning might have altered your existing
knowledge.
7. You should also consider your own biases, stereotypes, preconceptions, and/or
assumptions and demonstrate how you could define new modes of thinking or
considers different perspectives, contexts or situations as a result of your reflection
and learning.
8. Include a Reference List to capture any in-text citations used (use APA referencing
guidelines). References are not counted in the word limit.
9. Review Assignment Rubric (see Assignments in Canvas) to ensure you understand
how this assignment will be marked.


Here are some more guidelines about what you need to know about writing an effective,
high- quality reflection report.

Ask yourself some reflection questions to help you think through your response (some
questions and thought starters are provided in workshop slides every week). If you find it
difficult to pinpoint your own feelings or evaluate your own responses, try asking yourself
questions about the lessons, interactions, observations, experiences, or resources provided,
and how it relates to you.

Some questions you could use include:
• Reflect on your expectations of the Unit of Study: State your reaction to the UoS and
provide a brief explanation of whether or not your expectations were met., e.g.
Agree/disagree? Did you need to re-examine yourself or change your mind? Did the
subject meet your expectations? What did you learn as a result? What changed for
you?
• For learning materials and workshops: Indicate what you expected based on the
title, topic, slides or introduction.

• For interactions, observations and experiences: Indicate what you expected based
on your own prior knowledge provided by similar experiences or information
from others.
• Do the learning materials, workshops, or experiences challenge you socially,
culturally, emotionally, or intellectually? If so, which ones and how? Why does it
draw your attention, interest or how does it bother you?
• Has the learning materials, workshops, or experiences changed your way of thinking
and being, or behaving? How might it conflict with any previous knowledge or beliefs
you had? How did it persuade or convince you to change your thinking and
behaviours on the topic or situation?
• Do the learning materials, workshops, or experiences leave you with any existing or
new questions?
• How do the issues or ideas brought up through the learning materials, workshops, or
experiences match up with your past experiences or knowledge? Do the ideas
contradict or support each other?


Maintaining a professional and academic tone
• Do not write: “Lee was such a mean and rude idiot!”
• Write: “One student was particularly harsh and abrupt in the way he spoke. He made
me feel dismissed and excluded from the group.” (Describe the actions, not the
person, and frame the actions in terms of how they influenced your though process
and conclusions).


Submission instructions
• Submission: MS Word document (.doc, .docx) of PDF, Turnitin on Canvas
• Filename: PMGT5872_Reflection_[student lastname]_[student firstname]_[SID]

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