Descriptor: Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences.
The student:
- demonstrates regular involvement and active engagement with CAS experiences and CAS project;
- is able to foresee potential challenges to the initial plan and consider valid alternatives and contingencies;
- demonstrates adaptability to uncertainties and changes;
- gets involved in long-term CAS experiences and CAS project.
Ideas, skills, and tips: Don't just think of this one as a long-term commitment. Think about how you have had to sacrifice time and perhaps even drop certain experiences in order to balance your time.
As far as perseverance goes, how have you dealt with setbacks? How have you persisted “to accomplish difficult tasks and to overcome academic and personal barriers to meet goals”? Use the FCPS Portrait of a Graduate.
Questions:
- How much time are you focusing on this experience? What percentage of your free time are you engaged in it? What is the overall calculus of your time in this experience?
- As far as perseverance goes, how have you dealt with setbacks? How have you persisted “to accomplish difficult tasks and to overcome academic and personal barriers to meet goals”?
- How have you had to make choices to drop certain experiences because they were just not working for you?
Task: Determine what commitment means to you: think time, sacrifice, mental energy, etc. Then, define perseverance: think about your resilience, flexibility, response to challenges. The more specific you are, the better your goals will be.