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Creativity
Activity
Service
THE NATURE OF CAS
The Nature of CAS
-CAS enables students to demonstrate attributes of the IB learner profile in real and practical ways, to grow as unique individuals and to recognize their role in relation to others.
-Students develop skills, attitudes and dispositions through a variety of individual and group experiences that provide students with opportunities to explore their interests and express their passions, personalities and perspectives.
Three Strands of CAS
Overview
CREATIVITY
SERVICE
ACTIVITY
CREATIVITY
Creativity—exploring and extending ideas leading to an original or interpretive product or performance
Creativity
Art Pieces
Creating Dance routines
Creative Writing
Crafting
Cooking
Real Examples
Examples
Students cooked dinner from scratch for their family once per week.
Students choreographed dances for ther dance teams or to share on TikTok/Social Media
Students croched blankets or little purses to give to friends.
Students worked in their IB Art Portfolios
Activity
Activity
Physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle
Practicing any type of sport
Yoga or Meditation
Going to the gym
Hiking nature trails in and around Dallas
Going for bike/horse/ rides
Service
Collaborative and reciprocal engagement with the community IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTHENTIC NEED
Service
Authentic Needs:
-Picking up trash in community
-Tutoring fellow students
-Walking dogs for elderly neighborhood
-Cleaning a beach with Interact Club
Inauthentic Needs:
-Taking out garbage for parents
-Attending tutoring
-Walking your OWN dog.
-Attending an Interact Meeting
Actual Hillcrest Service Examples
Examples
- Cleaning up branches and debris in other neighborhoods after tornado
-Online volunteer tutoring in English for students from other countries
-Volunteering one Saturday a month at their local public library shelving/organizing books and reading to kids.
Working with an animal shelter to walk/jog the dogs once per week.
Rules about "service"
Examples
Cannot receive compensation for work/time
Cannot be within immediate family (babysitting siblings, walking their own dogs, taking out trash...this is just a part of being a good family member)
Try to do things outside of Hillcrest Campus
Working the concession stand at HHS games is not considered service by our campus.
CAS Experiences
Students engage in CAS experiences involving one or more of the three CAS strands. A CAS experience can be a single event or may be an extended series of events.
The CAS program formally begins at the start of the Diploma Program (August 1st) and continues until about April of your senior year.
Each student is required to have 150 CAS hours by the end of the program, and they should be divided fairly evenly between the three strands.
These must be documented on Managebac, which I will show you in one second. I will then approve or reject that experience.
Requirements in Managebac:
Description of Experience (what did you do?)
Approaches (Where and when is this taking place?)
Strands (Which of the 3 strands does this address?
Hours (How long did it last? Please round to a whole number)
Learning Outcomes...what skills did you improve?
Reflection (What did you learn or take away from this experience? What made it worthwhile?)
Requirements
Approved Experiences
Rejected Experiences
Approvals and Rejections
-Attending a student council meeting to help create processes or make decisions about student life.
-Helping a neighbor by mowing their yard or taking their dog for a walk.
-PLAYING football or soccer.
-Volunteering to CREATE signs to be placed around the school.
-Attending a meeting about service
-Chores around your house
- Attending a sporting event or visiting a museum
-Posting signs around the school
CAS Projects
One month’s duration
Challenges students to show initiative, demonstrate perseverance
Develop skills such as collaboration problem-solving, and decision-making.
The CAS project can address any single strand of CAS, or combine two or all three strands.
Investigate and Prepare!
First you...
1. Investigation: Students identify their interests, skills and talents to be used in considering opportunities for a CAS project, as well as areas for personal growth and development.
2. Preparation: Students clarify roles and responsibilities, develop a plan of actions to be taken, identify specified resources and timelines, and acquire any skills as needed to engage in the CAS experience.
All students must submit a CAS Project Proposal form via managebac by May 1st of their Junior Year.
Act and Reflect
and then you...
. 3. Action: Students implement their idea or plan. This often requires decision-making and problem solving. Students may work individually, with partners, or in groups.
4. Reflection: Students describe what happened, express feelings, generate ideas, and raise questions. Reflection can occur at any time during CAS to further understanding, to assist with revising plans, to learn from the experience, and to make explicit connections.
Demonstrate Learning
Finally you...
5. Demonstration: Students make explicit what and how they learned and what they have accomplished, for example, by sharing their CAS experience through their CAS portfolio or with others in an informal or formal manner. Through demonstration and communication, students solidify their understanding and evoke response from others.
Presentations
Presentations
Upon completion of their projects, students will create a presentation video that will be posted for all students to view and reflect upon.
Determination of proper completion and approval will depend upon this presentation, and their portfolio of CAS experiences.
CAS Portfolio
Managebac
FULLY COMPLETED CAS experience entries (Description, strand, reflection, etc)
Must have 150 hours' worth of experiences, with a fairly even split between the 3 strands.
How do I get final credit for CAS?
By the end of your senior year, you should have:
150 hours of APPROVED CAS experiences that include plenty of all three categories.
(Check this on Managebac)
A completed CAS Project with plenty of evidence, reflections, etc to show the work you've done and what you've learned.
Final Credit
Final Presentation
You will create a multimedia presentation to submit to me for final review of your CAS performance for the last year and half.
This can be done on Powerpoint, Google Slides, Prezi, or any other multimedia platform that works for you.
You must have a presentation, but also record yourself presenting. You can just do a voiceover, or you may create a video that you are in. Please keep the quality high...no handheld phones pointed at you and your laptop screen.
Sample Video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WF46WZfVrZbDYoaTc5-5NS3BoEORqO06/view?usp=drive_link
CAS Presentation
Requirements
No length or minimum slide requirements. Get the job done well and creatively.
1. Choose five of your most memorable CAS experiences:
-Describe each one
-Reflect on why it was so memorable
-Reflect on what you learned about yourself or the world
2. Describe the entire process for your CAS Project
-Planning
-Preparation
-Problems you ran into
-Putting it to action
-Reflections on why you chose it, how you think it went, what you learned about doing this kind of work, and what you learned about yourself and/or the world through this project.
There should be visual evidence of this project included throughout.