Reflection question planner
Free private planning tool
Choose a structure and a focus. The planner returns questions that help you think; it never writes the reflection for you.
Your question plan
How to use the planner
- Read your assignment brief and choose its required framework. If none is required, select the structure that best helps you examine the experience.
- Answer only the questions that reveal meaningful learning; do not force equal space for every stage.
- Check the plan against the rubric, confidentiality rules and required sources before drafting in your own words.
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Gibbs' reflective cycle
- Description: What happened, what was your role, and which moment needs reflection?
- Feelings: What did you notice, expect or feel, and how might that have shaped your response?
- Evaluation: What helped, what did not, and what evidence supports that judgement?
- Analysis: Why did the situation unfold this way, and which perspective or source changes your interpretation?
- Conclusion: What is the most important learning you can honestly defend?
- Action plan: What specific action will you take, when, and how will you know it helped?
What? So what? Now what?
- What?: What happened, what did you do, and what is the focused issue?
- So what?: Why does it matter, what influenced you, and what have you learned?
- Now what?: What will you change, continue or learn before a similar situation?
Course-specific structure
- Brief: What learning outcome, rubric criterion and confidentiality rule must you meet?
- Experience: Which experience gives you enough evidence to examine that outcome?
- Meaning: What assumptions, perspectives and sources help you analyse it?
- Action: What realistic next action follows from the learning?