Supervision in the CAS Program is meant to help students develop and grow. Having a coach or mentor for an experience is valuable in helping us identify our strengths and areas for growth and helping us work through challenges and setbacks. Please approach coaches, advisors and mentors of your experiences and let them know about CAS. As your CAS experience supervisor, they will be asked to comment on your performance and growth upon completion of the experience.
What if there is no supervisor?
In the spirit of fostering life-long learners, we support students who wish to plan a CAS experience on their own initiative. In these cases, students must take on some of the mentoring roles that a supervisor would take. In collaboration with their CAS Advisor, students should turn on the CAS Stages in Toddle for these experiences. The CAS stages page will then provide space to document the following:
Investigation - Where will you go for help and to learn about this experience? Books, videos and, best of all, people, are good choices for this.
Preparation - What equipment, resources, time, etc. do you need to carry this out?
Reflection - What will you hope to gain from this experience? Why are you interested in pursuing it? How will it help you meet Learning Outcomes?
Action - What exactly will you do? How often? What will it look like?
Demonstration - What can you show us to demonstrate your learning in this experience.
Example
For example, perhaps you'd like to learn how to bake. Your CAS Stages might look like this:
Investigation - I will find a book of recipes for beginners that is meant to teach basic techniques. I will start at the beginning and work through one recipe each week. I have also found a YouTube channel (link it) that demonstrates basic baking techniques. I will ask my parents for help if I do not understand.
Preparation - I will use our home kitchen. My parents bake quite frequently, so we should have all the equipment I need. I will make a list of ingredients each week and accompany my family shopping to buy them.
Reflection - I am hoping to learn basic baking techniques and share the baked goods with my family and friends. Everyone always loves it when people bake for them and I think it's a nice way to show people how much I appreciate them. I hope that this will teach me to stick with a project as I usually get frustrated and give up when it doesn't work right away. I also heard that baking requires precision and I hope to work on that skill. This will also require planning and initiative.
Action - I will bake once per week following the recipes in my baking book. They start simple and gradually work up to more complicated products.
Demonstration - I will be able to show photos and videos of the techniques I learn as well as the products. I will try to bring baked good to share in Advisory at least once a month so everyone can see what I have done.