IB requires candidates to meet with their CAS coordinators several times throughout their 18-month journey. The most formal of these meetings is the CAS exit interview, much like the viva voce you complete for the EE.
I create a bulk experience for all of you to offer you the chance to think holistically about your engagement in CAS and to offer some feedback for me. Almost all changes to the program come from these exit interviews and you, the candidates. By the ends of your junior and senior years, you will all meet with an IB or a CAS coordinator to discuss the impact of CAS on you. You have just one (1) task to complete: 1) a short reflection addressing one of the prompts below. For this final reflection, you do not need to pick a Learning Outcome. You SHOULD complete this assignment before you meet with a coordinator during your TOK class or office hours. This final interview counts as closure and the completion of your CAS portfolio and work. We then send word to IB that all candidates have completed CAS, and...you are done.
Once you’ve met with me, you will have completed all aspects of the core.
What is one thing you have learned about yourself through the completion of the CAS program?
What was your most valuable/memorable/enlightening CAS experience? Why?
What skills have you developed or sharpened most as a result of your experiences?
What was the most difficult CAS strand or learning outcome for you to complete? Why?
If you could do CAS all over again, what would you do differently?
What does Marshall do right with CAS? Wrong?
What suggestions do you have to improve the program?