HomeFacilitating Integration and Reflection of the Elon Experiences For Faculty and Staff Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionFacilitating Integration and Reflection of the Elon Experiences Toolkit Across Experience Questions Global Engagement Internships Leadership Service Undergraduate Research Expansion Set: Facilitating Integration of and Reflection on Engaged Learning (Broadly) For Students Informational Interviews For Faculty and Staff Sample FIRE Toolkit Activities Emailing Students (Templates) For Parents and Family Members Print a Toolkit Deck About the Toolkits We’ve developed the resources in this section to help you use the FIRE Toolkit with students—in classroom settings, academic advising, student employment conversations, student organization advising, living learning communities, and every other context in which you work with students. Have a request for a new resource not included here? Please email us your ideas! What is the FIRE Toolkit? The FIRE Toolkit includes pre-experience, during-experience, and post-experience reflection and integration questions for each Elon Experience—as well as Across Experience questions. Students can use these questions to guide their reflection on and discussion with others about which Elon Experiences are the best match for them. Students also can use them to talk with peers, advisors, and mentors about their plans for their future Elon Experiences and how Elon Experiences they’ve already completed integrate with their broader university journey and their future goals. Students can track their reflections over time, using Google Docs linked from the FIRE Toolkit website (www.CenterForEngagedLearning.org/fire). How do I use the FIRE Toolkit with students? We recommend using the Toolkit questions to start and maintain ongoing conversations. While we want students to retain agency in how they use the toolkit to reflect on and integrate their Elon Experiences with other aspects of their education and professional development, the Toolkit includes questions you can use… during advising conversations, with student employees you supervise, as you visit with mentees about their short- and long-term goals, and in your many other meaningful relationships with students. Pick a question to ask the next time you meet with a student, and then ask a follow-up question at a future meeting. For example, if a student expresses interest in an internship, you might ask… What are your goals for your internship experience? What skills do you hope to develop, or what experiences do you hope to gain? (From the Internships Pre-Experience Questions) Later, when the student is completing the internship, you might ask… What have you learned so far at your internship site that will inform your internship work in the weeks to come? (From the Internships During-Experience Questions) Finally, when the student wraps up their internship, you might ask… What did you learn – about yourself or your field of study – during your internship experience? (From the Internships Post-Experience Questions) Of course, that’s just one example of iterative conversations the Toolkit can facilitate. The Toolkit includes question sets for each Elon Experience, as well as Across Experience questions.
