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*Finally time for CAS to begin… *You’ve been hearing about CAS since entering PIBS.. *Quote taken directly from the International Baccalaureate Organization.. We should all consider it for a moment..

*Cas is required…. *Required means required… *no IB diploma is awarded if CAS is not completed * regardless of much you excel academically, successful CAS is a requirement…

CAS is meant to take you outside of the classroom…

Creativity

Creativity Creativity includes the arts and other experiences that involve creative thinking.  This area also includes the creativity in designing and implementing service projects. It is being actively involved in creative activities Music, drama, art, computer web design, theatre production, technology, construction. Helping design a fundraiser can be creative Teaching music to peers /students is both creative and service Attending a play or concert is passive and not CAS But if you give your own talk or presentation about a concert you attended to others—this is CAS Creativity is more or less self – explanatory….

Creativity can often combine with service… *Here is an important point… *you can often combine 2 or 3 CAS elements in one CAS activity…

Action Action is physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle. Action includes any varsity, or competitive sport And any recreational, intramural, team or individual sport. Action can be taking part in special trips, or excursions. It is also participating in local or international projects. Action is any physical activity or work involved in any creative or service activity. Emphasize the first bullet; if you sweat it’s more than likely qualifies as CAS i.e. also setting up chairs at a fundraiser, painting stage sets, etc..

Recreational or competitive community sports participation.. Action can be recreational, competitive, JV or Varsity, AAU, sports etc….

Service is… unpaid / voluntary exchange that has learning benefit. interaction with others in the community. numerous community and social service activities. NHS, Key Club, SGA, Interact, and many LHS clubs and org. helping children with special needs,and hospital/hospice volunteering *Service is self-explanatory also– *within and outside school there are unlimited opportunites for service… *CAS advisors, myself, Mrs. Wyka, Mr. Buettner can help you locate more…

Service activity: Stop Hunger Now sponsored by Interact and Rotary…

Page of Hope collects quality educational materials to be sent overseas to underserved areas… Some students actually create their own service organizations….

Local papers and other media can be uses as evidence and documentation… As you may already know, documentation is important… I’ll be talking about that in few minutes…

scanned printed programs of events are excellent documentation accepted by IB…

Eight CAS Learning Outcomes Increased awareness of strengths and areas for growth Undertook new challenges Planned and initiated activities Worked collaboratively Showed perseverance and commitment Engaged with issues of global importance Considered the ethical implications of actions Developed new skills Now you know what CAS is, here is WHY we do it… CAS is not your usual H.S. Service hours, there is a bigger purpose behind CAS,…. and there is a reason why CAS is a part of an IB diploma… these 8 learning outcomes represent the personal growth and development that CAS is designed to help you attain… so each CAS activity must have at least one of these outcomes… but guess what----- just about every Creative, Action, or Service activity you might undertake already has one or more of these outcomes--- you just need to start looking for them….

CAS Learning outcomes 1 thru 4   Increased awareness of strengths and areas for growth achieved through experiences which test, develop and extend skills and abilities which grow your overall competence 2. Undertook new challenges achieved by taking on a new or significantly extending an existing activity 3. Planned and initiated activities achieved with thoughtful discussion of and clearly defined areas of personal and group responsibility 4. Worked collaboratively achieved by working in at least one project collaboratively which integrates at least two of Creativity, Action, and Service in one project Here are the outcomes in more detail--- you need to become familiar with them…..

Interact Club Holiday shopping for under-privileged children… Learning Outcomes: increased awareness; worked collaboratively; considered ethical implications; developed new skills Let me give you a few examples, how to demonstrate learning outcomes in a CAS activity… Interact club service activity---- helping Rotary take disadvantaged children holiday shopping… you can actually declare 4 learnikng outcomes for this…. Not ALL eight, but 4 is pretty good…

Mission Trip could be all eight CAS learning outcomes: Increased awareness, new challenge, planned and initiated, worked collaboratively, perseverance, ethical implications, new skills. Now here is a great activity where you can easily declare all 8 learning outcomes….

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Like I said before, CAS is everywhere, you are probably already doing A LOT of CAS right now…

CAS Process 1…   THINK about what you want to do and how you want to spend your time completing your CAS hours.  Make sure it's meaningful, meets the learning objectives. Arrange for your adult supervisor who will follow through and complete a short evaluation on your participation when finished Everyone at LHS along with countless people in the community can be resources for you and your development of CAS. Enter you activity into ManageBac, and wait for approval from your advisor. Be careful to not over-claim or under-claim learning objectives. Be sure to enter a short description and supervisor PHONE and EMAIL information to get pre-approval Now we are in the more technical stuff… you will need to refer back to this part… but note HILIGHTS C & G here…

CAS Process 2…   After activity is over---upload evidence (journal, photos, blog, scanned documents) of your activity on to ManageBac. Be sure to REFLECT, by answering answer CAS questions on ManabeBac Reflections tab. Request supervisor evaluation through ManageBac as soon as you complete your activity. Do this thru ManageBac! Check ManageBac frequently to see if your supervisor reviews have posted. Valid supervisor reviews are a non-negotiable. Seniors need them in by January 31. Activities that have no supervisor reviews will need to be deleted. See your advisors for help… The main problem first IB class had were late supervisor reviews…. avoid this… communicate with your supervisors!

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Three Steps to CAS Completion: Approval--- Must have ADULT SUPERVISOR email & phone Document--- Use ManageBac as “digital scrapbook”. Reflect --- Without reflection, activities are not finished. This is very important… if you do not do these three steps, you will not get credit for your CAS activity or activities.. The next slides have technical information about how to use the ManageBac website---I’ll only touch on them here---- you can access this presentation on the LHS website under my name; or see CAS advisors in person…

Obtain Approval from your advisor Must obtain advisor approval on ManageBac first ADULT SUPERVISOR name, email AND phone enter description & above info. Into ManageBac Wait for approval before beginning…

Must provide Supervisor name, email & phone and select learning objectives to add any CAS activity… Red Asterisk means required entry or activity will not record… must provide e-mail and phone….

CAS Supervisors…who are they? All members of the LHS School Faculty and Staff are part of the IB diploma and are therefore part of the CAS team. Any teacher, coach, administrator, or staff member of LHS is eligible to be your adult supervisor and mentor for your CAS activities. Qualified adults in the community will also serve as your CAS supervisors. CAS advisors will also come from outside of Citrus County. Here is a description of potential CAS supervisors….

ManageBac is a“digital scrapbook”. 2. Document: ManageBac is a“digital scrapbook”. Documentation is mandatory per IB.ORG Upload evidence and documentation to ManageBac. This pictures, video –audio files, articles, programs etc. Documents are easily uploaded to ManageBac Obtain SUPERVISOR REVIEWS (ManageBac email or hardcopy) Stay Current –Avoid reconstructing everything afterwards Again the name of the program is ManageBac… you will be receiving an e-mail inviting you to register. Once registered you can begin entering and documenting your CAS activities. PLEASE NOTE BULLET “F” IT IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP UP WITH YOUR DOCUME NTING AS YOU COMPLETE ACTIVITIES…

First documentation is to upload your CAS 1st Interview and Reflection to ManageBac Mr. Buettner will give this to you, it is your first CAS activity ---

Certificates of completion are documentation… Just an example of documentation of an activity that you could scan and upload to your ManageBac site…

Uploaded documentation files on your ManageBac screen… read bullet…

Reflection 1… Answer CAS questions in Reflection Tab on ManageBac Reflect on your CAS activities every few weeks and at conclusion. Post or link journaling, blogs and reflective writing to ManageBac Without reflection, CAS activities are not finished. The reflection portion of the documentation process is pretty well set out on ManageBac…

Reflection 2… Reflection is not always easy, it needs to be developed.   Reflection is not always easy, it needs to be developed. Kinds of Reflection: Public or private Individual or shared Objective or subjective Various kinds of reflection work for different people. TOK (Theory of Knowledge) will help with CAS reflections… TOK will help….

Reflective questions.. Summarize and explain what you hoped to accomplish… How successful were you in achieving your goals? What were difficulties & how did you overcome them? What did you learn about yourself and others? What abilities,attitudes & values have you developed? Who helped you process what you learned? Who else helped and how? How did this activity/project benefit others? What might you do differently next time to improve? Can you apply what you learned elsewhere? And these are some possible questions you could use to reflect on an activity….

CAS Questions TAB on ManageBac… This is what the questions page looks like on managebac….

“Request Supervisor Review” Request “Supervisor Review” through ManageBac as soon as you complete your activity. Hard Copy “CAS Completion Form” is on the “Worksheet” screen. Note: supervisor request tab Note also: where to access a hardcopy supervisor form if your supervisor does not have e-mail… “Request Supervisor Review” CAS Completion Form Hard Copy

CAS Project 1… min. of one project is a CAS requirement   min. of one project is a CAS requirement project is teamwork and collaboration.. minimum of two or three people… uses two of Creativity, Action, & Service project must be of “significant” duration can be local or international in nature.. The last part of CAS is the project… (read each bullet)

CAS Project 2… only requirement is planning and collaboration is more than an activity you simply attend… plan, design, and create in collaboration with peers.. can be a one-time event, such as a fundraiser Is an ongoing – continuous activity Projects run the gamut… it can be high end or low key only requirement is planning and collaboration

Colors for CASA: Project of Hannah Huntington and Amanda Pitre

IB Project:Mary Lumapus, Zuhair Sami, Allyson Talaroc, Chandni Patel, Amy Chen

NHS Activity: Stenciling LHS Hallways on Saturdays…

Interact “Stop Hunger Now”

ROCCS: Rowing Organization of Citrus County Students…

Instructing your own martial arts (Vahda) course

Girls State

Junior Deadlines August 31 2012 Successful ManageBac logon---know how to access and use ManageBac. You must have logged onto ManageBac--- see advisors for help. 1st interview uploaded onto ManageBac—is 1st activity on ManageBac. Must see your advisor- during class- after school or by appt. December 31 2012 Min. of 3 to 5 significant CAS activities averaging 3-4 hours per week CAS Project Proposal posted on ManageBac. January 31 2013 Approved CAS project proposal on ManageBac by 1-31-13 or earlier. Have 3 (three) completed activities WITH supervisor reviews. Evidence, Reflection, Documentation, CAS Questions answered, 3 successful supervisor reviews on ManageBac CAS and CAS Project must be completed by 12-31-2013. As Seniors you should finish CAS by 12-31-2013. You will not have time for CAS Spring Sem. Senior Year. Focus will be on your IB exams and Internal Assessments. You must pay attention to these deadlines….. 8-31 has been changed to 9-15… These will be posted on ManageBac and e-mailed to you …

Senior Deadlines August 31 2012 January 31 2013 Min. of 3 to 5 significant CAS activities averaging 3-4 hours per week. CAS project proposal due by 8-31-12: class of 2013 First interview uploaded and personally see your Advisor E-mail Interview will tell you these are complete December 31 2012 Min. of 10 significant CAS activities averaging 3-4 hours per week. Your CAS Project is completed. January 31 2013 CAS is officially over and all requirements should be completed. All supervisor reviews are returned. Obtaining timely supervisor reviews was Primary Problem for 2012. All evidence, reflection, documentation, uploaded on ManageBac. CAS questions completed on ManageBac Seniors will not have time for CAS Spring Semester ---focus is on your IB exams and Internal Assessments.

Three CAS websites to help… http://lhsib.weebly.com/cas http://www.citrus.k12.fl.us/lhs/ (go to carella) http://globalengage.ibo.org/

http://lhsib.weebly.com/cas Official LHS site

http://www.citrus.k12.fl.us/lhs/ My personal site providing CAS opportunities and inspiration…

Global Engage: http://globalengage.ibo.org/ IBO website… with more ideas to get involved internationally….

CAS in Sum 1: Min. 3 to 5 activities per semester with CAS averaging 3-4 hours per week. CAS project proposal due by 8-31-12: class of 2013 CAS project proposal due by 1-31-13: class of 2014 Simple rule is that CAS is significant in some way and is not “going through the motions” If you’re passionate about it, or it is “out of your comfort zone”-- guarantees a good CAS activity. Dedication and devotion to any worthwhile organization, team, club is excellent CAS! Just the hilighted slides…

Cas in Sum 2… Must demonstrate significance to you or to the people or organization your activity serves. Not all activities will or can be of “super significance” --- but goal is to tap into your full abilities. ALL THREE areas of CAS must be represented (it’s given you may favor one area over another…) Must show ALL 8 learning outcomes, with evidence, reflection, documentation posted for each one. IB defines CAS on average 3 to 4 hours per week. More some week, less hours the next. IB:CAS is not counting hours, but is engaging in experiential learning through worthwhile endeavors. Just c and d for now…