1. INTRO TO C.A.S.
For the class of 2020

2. Student Information Form

3. A REQUIREMENT FOR YOUR IB DIPLOMA THAT STANDS FOR:
What is C.A.S?
A REQUIREMENT FOR YOUR IB DIPLOMA THAT STANDS FOR:
CREATIVITY
ACTIVITY
SERVICE

4. WHY DO C.A.S?
You may notice at the core of the model are the Theory of Knowledge, Extended Essay, and Creativity, Activity, and Service requirements for your diploma
The three aims of the core are:
Support, and be supported by the academic disciplines
Foster international-mindedness
Develop self-awareness and a sense of identity
C.A.S. is FUN!

5. How Can we “Support, and be supported by, the academic disciplines?
Strand
Language & Literature
Humanities & Society
Sciences
Arts
Mathematics
Creativity
Activity
Service

6. How do we “Foster International-Mindedness?”
You don’t have to travel abroad to recognize your actions and service have international implications
Example: You volunteer at a local homeless shelter. In your reflection of this activity you mention that this is a world-wide problem and that if everyone would pitch in a little locally, it could have global significance

7. How do we “Develop Self-Awareness
How do we “Develop Self-Awareness?” How do we “develop a sense of Identity?”
Self-awareness
Sense of identity

8. How do we earn our C.A.S? Requirements: Due Date: February 27th, 2020
Participate, on average, one experience per week
Achieve all seven of the C.A.S. Learning Outcomes
Maintain a C.A.S. Portfolio
Complete a C.A.S. Project
Complete 3 interviews with the C.A.S. coordinator (Miss Harfmann)
Due Date: February 27th, 2020

9. C.A.S. Experiences
Each week, you should record what experience you participated in on your individual C.A.S. Progress Report
For each experience, you need to fill out an Experience Form. Once completed, you will copy the link of your experience form and hyperlink it to the title of your experience on your progress report. The title will become blue if you have done this correctly at which point, open it to make sure it worked. The Experience Form title and the title that is hyperlinked on the Progress Report should match exactly.
For each grading period, one experience will need to have a Reflection Form completed instead of an experience form. Similar to an experience form, you must hyperlink it to the title of the experience on your progress report.
By the end of your C.A.S. you should have written a reflection form for each of the seven learning outcomes so make sure you are tracking that using your C.A.S. Completion Summary

10. C.A.S. Experiences: What Counts?
IB Mission Statement The International Bacccalaureate aims to develop inquiuring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international educations and rigorous assessment, These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right. Which part do you think applies to C.A.S.?

11. C.A.S. Experiences: What counts?
Is C.A.S.
Is not C.A.S.
Any experience in a non-IB diploma class
Any experience aimed at a specific and willing community
Any experience you are paid for
Any experience required for an IB Diploma class
Any experience that includes proselytizing (political and/or religious)
Any experience for a “for profit” organization
Example: Volunteering at PetsMart
Any activity that promotes divisiveness or conflict
If you aren’t sure if it should count, ask me! Better safe than sorry!

12. C.A.S. Experiences
Completion of your C.A.S. experiences will play a role in your English grade each six weeks. The following are the grade penalties removed from 100 before conversion to a grade out of points:
*Failure to complete the required number of experiences: -10 points/experience
*Failure to complete experience forms for an experience: -5 points/each
Partially completed experience form: -2 points/each
*Failure to complete a reflection form for an experience: -10 points
Partially completed reflection form: -5 points
*Failure to hyperlink properly to an experience or reflection: -2 points/each
*Failure to fill out the progress report properly: -2 points/each
* You will not be penalized twice for the same experience. For example, if you are missing an experience, you will not also be penalized for its accompanying experience form.

13. C.A.S. Experiences: How many each grading period
Minimum Number of Required Experiences Each Six Weeks (1-6)
Year
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
Junior 6 5
Senior -

14. C.A.S. experiences: How Many Each Grading Period
Part of the IB Learner Profile is about balance, so to aid in balancing your C.A.S., each six weeks you have to participate in at least one experience in each of the strands of Creativity, Activity, and Service.
Additionally, you must have at least two experiences in two different strands during each six weeks.
Ongoing events can only be counted once a week.
Example: If you football, you might have 5 nights of practice and game. This counts as one experience for the week. However, the following week, you could count practice and the next game as another experience,
All C.A.S. experiences are due by 8:oo am the last day of the six weeks.
First Semester
Second Semester
T1 – 10/10
T4 – 3/5
T2 – 11/27
T5 – 4/16
T3 – 1/18
T6 – 6/6

15. C.A.S. Learning outcomes
All seven learning outcomes must be achieved throughout your participation in C.A.S. They are as follows:
LO 1: Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth.
LO 2: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process.
LO 3: Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a C.A.S. experiences.
LO 4: Show commitment to and perseverance in C.A.S. experiences.
LO 5: Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively.
LO 6: Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance.
LO 7: Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions.

16. C.A.S. Project
The C.A.S. project is a collaborative project that a student undertakes and utilizes the process to the left and lasts a month
Does not have to be collaborative with IB. Can be collaborative with other members of the community
Project & all accompanying documents are due by 8:00 a.m. on the day we return to school in Fall 2020
You must have a C.A.S. Project Interview before you may begin your C.A.S. Project
Plan for 15 minutes, but it could be shorter based on how well thought out your idea is
Example: You and some friends decide to paint the Starry Night on your bedroom wall as a mural

17. C.A.S. Project
Other Ideas of C.A.S. Projects?

18. C.A.S. Project
Prior to your C.A.S. Project interview for approval, you must complete the C.A.S. Project Planning Form
Students should allocate 15 minutes for this interview; however, depending how well thought out the project is, it may take less time.
If a project is not approved, students can either modify the existing project or choose a different idea
Once a project is approved, students must use the C.A.S. Project Process Journal to track each time you work on your project. This form is individual; however, students working on the same project may have the same entries.
Upon completion of the C.A.S. Project, each student will fill out a C.A.S. Project Reflection Form.

19. C.A.S. Interviews
You must have three interviews with the C.A.S. Coordinator, not including your C.A.S. Project Interview
First Interview
ASAP
What is your plan to complete C.A.S?
What are you already doing that is C.A.S?
What do you anticipate struggling with?
Second interview
End of junior year
Everything on track? If not, how can we correct?
Third Interview
Reflective about your C.A.S. experience and how it affected you.

20. C.A.S. Interviews
Following each interview, the C.A.S. Coordinator will complete a C.A.S. Interview Feedback Form
Let’s setup your folder now!
Rename the form “Last Name, First Name CAS 2020”
After your last interview, you will also complete the C.A.S. Programme Reflection Form

21. So where do I go from here?
This presentation can be found on the main IB page on MRHS’s website.
Questions, comments, concerns, confusion? Come see me in F210
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