25 Self-Reflection Questions to Get Students Thinking About Their Learning

Self-reflection presents some of the most powerful instructional opportunities in our classrooms and workplaces. Its potency is in how it exercises multiple skills. 

We're talking about the skills that make our students successful, such as critical thinking, personal responsibility, useful failure, adaptability, and more. Self-reflection questions are shared in the "Debrief" stage of Solution Fluency. It's often overlooked, which is why we made it a crucial stage in the process.

When we debrief a project we reflect on everything including the process, the choices and discoveries we made, and what didn't go quite as expected. It's when we piece them all together into a learning experience—even one or more "Aha!" moments—that reflective learning becomes real.

As with any stage of using the Essential Fluencies, it comes down to asking the right self-reflection questions. After all, we want to inspire deep thinking in our kids about their learning journeys. For example, how has what we've learned made us better? How can we apply our new knowledge to other problems? What is its significance in the real world?

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