In order to meet the CAS requirement for your IB diploma, you must have the following in your Managebac account.
A. Goals and aims for your two years of CAS.
B. About 25 hours each of Creativity, Activity and Service both junior and senior year. At least two different activities for each Creativity, Activity and Service each year.
C. You must have a mix of photos, certificates, supervisor recommendations, maps, articles and other documentation of CAS activities uploaded to Managebac. Documentation is required for any activity over 5 hours. You need five bits of documentation for each year.
D. Document your CAS hours in Managebac.
E. Write reflections for every CAS activity over five hours. You need ten reflections each total.
F. Conduct your CAS project with at least one other student. This must take over a month. You must fill out the CAS project form (attached below)
G. Create a Powerpoint or some other form of documentation on how you met the seven learning outcomes. Give the name and the date of the activity. Include your reflection that documents how you met this learning outcome.
The Seven Learning Outcomes:
Student completion of CAS is based on the achievement of the seven CAS learning outcomes realized through the student’s commitment to his or her CAS programme over a period of 18 months. These learning outcomes articulate what a CAS student is able to do at some point during his or her CAS programme. Through meaningful and purposeful CAS experiences, students develop the necessary skills, attributes and understandings to achieve the seven CAS learning outcomes.
1: Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth
Students are able to see themselves as individuals with various abilities and skills, of which some are more developed than others.
2: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process
A new challenge may be an unfamiliar experience or an extension of an existing one. The newly acquired or developed skills may be shown through experiences that the student has not previously undertaken or through increased expertise in an established area.
3: Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience
Students can articulate the stages from conceiving an idea to executing a plan for a CAS experience or series of CAS experiences. This may be accomplished in collaboration with other participants. Students may show their knowledge and awareness by building on a previous experience, or by launching a new idea or process.
4: Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences
Students demonstrate regular involvement and active engagement in CAS.
5: Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively
Students are able to identify, demonstrate and critically discuss the benefits and challenges of collaboration gained through CAS experiences.
6: Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance
Students are able to identify and demonstrate their understanding of global issues, make responsible decisions, and take appropriate action in response to the issue either locally, nationally or internationally.
7: Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions
Students show awareness of the consequences of choices and actions in planning and carrying out CAS experiences.
You filled out a CAS Project form here. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdiiZX04x2HU5RUx2w_VDwRdtB55gK7tiAst5PXcAweubuaA/viewform
Here is some ideas about how to have reflections and the kinds of things that involve ethical choices: http://casblogatsis.blogspot.com/2018/03/considering-ethics-of-choices-and.html
Global engagement advice: If you took on an issue like poverty or homelessness, being healthy, polution, etc. this is a global issue. Talk about how you know this issue occurs around the world and that you chose to act locally to address this issue.