Creativity,+Action+and+Service

Welcome to the CAS PAGE for IB Students

= CAS Requirements =  **For the Class of 2017, IB has implemented changes in the CAS program. Please read through these CAS pages and the IB Manual to ensure that you meet all requirements. Please see Mr Schoneberg or Pedelty if you have further questions. ** = CAS Requirements: = 1. **Investigation **: Students identify their interests, skills and talents to be used in considering opportunities for CAS experiences, as well as areas for personal growth and development. Students investigate what they want to do and determine the purpose for their CAS experience. In the case of service, students identify a need they want to address. 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. 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 between their growth, accomplishments, and the learning outcomes for personal awareness. Reflection may lead to new action. 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. **CAS Learning Outcomes:** The project and other experiences must show evidence in each of the seven learning outcomes which are as follows: **Logging CAS Experiences: **
 * **CAS Experiences: **Students must engage in CAS experiences involving one or more of the three CAS strands. A CAS experience can be a single event or an extended series of events. 5-8 experiences are required. CAS experiences must met all learning outcomes at least once. CAS students are required to submit evidence of their experiences to ManageBAC.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">CAS Stages: ** Investigation, preparation, action, reflection, and demonstration. Students must use these stages as the framework for CAS experiences and the CAS Project.
 * <span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reflection: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is a strong emphasis on reflection. It is central to building a deep and rich experience in CAS. (See the CAS Reflections page)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">CAS Project ** (Please see page on CAS Project).
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Identify own strengths and develop areas of growth
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience
 * 4) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Show commitment to and preseverance in CAS experience
 * 5) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively
 * 6) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance
 * 7) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Activities logged must be completed during **<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Junior & Senior ** year
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Must record activities and submit detailed reflections through Managebac.

= Defining CAS Strands: = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Creativity** : Creativity in CAS provides students with the opportunity to explore their own sense of original thinking and expression. Creativity will come from the student’s talents, interests, passions, emotional responses,and imagination; the form of expression is limitless. This may include visual and performing arts, digital design, writing, film, culinary arts, crafts and composition. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Action** : The aim of the “Activity” strand is to promote lifelong healthy habits related to physical well-being. Pursuits may include individual and team sports, aerobic exercise, dance, outdoor recreation, fitness training, and any other form of physical exertion that purposefully contributes to a healthy lifestyle. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Service** : The aim of the “Service” strand is for students to understand their capacity to make a meaningful contribution to their community and society. Through service, students develop and apply personal and social skills in real-life situations involving decision-making, problem-solving, initiative, responsibility, and accountability for their actions. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Four types of service action It is recommended that students engage with different types of service within their CAS programme. These types of action are as follows. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• **<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Direct service: ** Student interaction involves people, the environment or animals. For example, this can appear as one-on-one tutoring, developing a garden in partnership with refugees, or working in an animal shelter. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• **<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indirect service: ** Though students do not see the recipients of indirect service, they have verified their actions will benefit the community or environment. For example, this can appear as re-designing a non-profit organization’s website, writing original picture books to teach a language, or nurturing tree seedlings for planting. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">•**<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Advocacy: ** Students speak on behalf of a cause or concern to promote action on an issue of public interest. For example, this may appear as initiating an awareness campaign on hunger, performing a play on replacing bullying with respect, or creating a video on sustainable water solutions. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• **<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Research: ** Students collect information through varied sources, analyse data, and report on a topic of importance to influence policy or practice. For example, they may conduct environmental surveys to influence their school, contribute to a study of animal migration, compile effective means to reduce litter in public spaces, or conduct social research by interviewing people on topics such as homelessness, unemployment or isolation. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">__All proposed CAS activities must meet four criteria:__ ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings,Wingdings; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Real, purposeful activities, with significant outcomes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings,Wingdings; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Personal challenge – tasks must extend the student and be achievable in scope <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings,Wingdings; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Thoughtful consideration, such as planning, reviewing progress, reporting <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings,Wingdings; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Reflection on outcomes and personal learning <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Suggested CAS Activities: **__

__**//Creativity//**__
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tutoring, Yearbook, Newspaper
 * < Art Club ||< Drama & Theater ||
 * < Band/Orchestra ||< Literary Magazine ||
 * < Ceramics ||< Photography ||
 * < Choreography ||< Science Club ||
 * < Chorus/Madrigals ||< Writing Club ||
 * < Debate & Forensics ||

__**//Action//**__
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">An Action activity must have a measurable and obtainable goal that you, the student, develop. If you have a running plan or fitness plan please keep a log with dates as evidence of the activity. ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sport training program such as an organized fitness plan or running plan, Activity Classes/Lessons such as Martial Arts and Yoga
 * < Baseball ||< Horse Back Riding ||
 * < Basketball ||< Indoor Track ||
 * < Cheerleading ||< Pompon ||
 * < Cross Country ||< Soccer ||
 * < Crew ||< Softball ||
 * < Cycling ||< Swimming ||
 * < Dance ||< Tennis ||
 * < Field Hockey ||< Volleyball ||
 * < Football ||< Wrestling ||
 * < Golf ||

__**//Service//**__
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Volunteering in:
 * < Bethesda Cares ||< Mathletes ||
 * < C & O Canal Preservation ||< Wider Circle ||
 * < Computer Club ||< Scouting Service ||
 * < International Club ||< Student Government ||
 * < Habitat for Humanity/Rebuilding Together ||< Tutoring ||
 * <  ||< Welcoming Diversity ||
 * < Camps ||< Women’s Shelters ||
 * < Day Care Centers ||< Nursing Homes ||
 * < Elementary Schools ||

=__//**CAS PROJECT**//__= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A major component of CAS is the CAS Project. Students in the DP must complete //<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">one major student initiated collaborative project ** //integrating one or more strands of C/A/S (Ex: Creativity or Service and Action or Creativity, Action & Service). The //<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">duration of a project must be a month // or more from planning to completion. Each student involved in the project must have a significant role and will describe their role and experience on ManageBAC. When you log your project into ManageBAC please identify that it is your project. //<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Please post photos, video, links, etc as proof of your project. // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CAS requires students to take part in a range of activities and projects. These should always involve: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Below are examples of some general ideas for the CAS Project: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Creativity: A student group plans, designs and creates a mural. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Activity: Students organize and participate in a sports team including training sessions and matches against other teams. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Service: Students set up and conduct tutoring for people in need. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Creativity and activity: Students choreograph a routine for their marching band. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Service and activity: Students plan and participate in the planting and maintenance of a garden with members of the local community. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Service and creativity: Students identify that children at a local school need backpacks and subsequently design and make the backpacks out of recycled materials. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Creativity, activity, and service: Students rehearse and perform a dance production for a community retirement home. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please see your CAS Advisor if you have questions or concerns about the project.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">real, purposeful activities, with significant outcomes
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">personal challenge
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">thoughtful consideration, such as planning, reviewing progress, reporting
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reflection on outcomes and personal learning.

= REFLECTIONS =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reflection is central to building a deep and rich experience in CAS. Developing a culture of reflection helps students recognize and understand how to be reflective as well as deciding the best methods and appropriate timing. Student learning is enhanced by reflection on choices and actions. This enables students to grow in their ability to explore skills, strengths, limitations and areas for further development.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reflection leads to improved problem-solving, higher cognitive processes and greater depth of understanding in addition to exploring how CAS experiences may influence future possibilities.Reflection is a dynamic means for self-knowing, learning and decision-making. Four elements assist in the CAS reflective process. The first two elements form the foundation of reflection. Please use these elements and the learning outcomes you met in the CAS experience to create a well rounded reflection.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• **<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Describing what happened: ** Students retell their memorable moments, identifying what was important or influential, what went well or was difficult, obstacles and successes. Reflection Creativity, activity, service guide 27

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">•**<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Expressing feelings: ** Students articulate emotional responses to their experiences. The following two elements add greater depth and expand perspectives.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">•**<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Generating ideas: ** Rethinking or re-examining choices and actions increases awareness about self and situations.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• **<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Asking questions: ** Questions about people, processes or issues prompt further thinking and ongoing inquiry.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">__**<span style="font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Lastly__ : **__


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">A reflection is required for each activity.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Reflections should be written in manageBAC along with evidence of the activity (ie. photos, video, blog, etc.)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Should use the outcomes met in the activity into the reflection as well!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: lemonde-journal-1,lemonde-journal-2,serif; font-size: 14.6px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reflections are to record changes, successes and challenges during the program. It is NOT meant to be merely a record of time spent and/or activities undertaken.

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