cas helping to bring the ib learner profile into the ib diploma
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CAS helping to bring the IB Learner profile into the
IB Diploma
Within the Diploma Programme, CAS provides the main opportunity to
develop many of the attributes described in the IB learner profile.
For this reason, the aims of CAS have been written in a form that highlights their connections with the IB learner profile.
The CAS programme aims to develop students who
are:
Aims of CAS
actively pursuing individual interests as an important
counterbalance to the academic pressures of the rest of the
Diploma Programme.
Aims of CAS
active participants in sustained, individual and collaborative
projects.
Aims of CAS
students that understand their own strengths and limitations,
identify goals and devise strategies for personal growth.
Reflective Thinkers
Aims of CAS
willing to accept new challenges and new roles.
Risk-Takers
Aims of CAS
aware of themselves as members of communities with
responsibilities towards each other and the environment.
Caring
Aims of CAS
students that enjoy and find significance in a range of activities
involving intellectual, physical, creative and emotional
experiences.
Balanced
The nature of Creativity, Action, Service
...if you believe in something, you must not just think or talk or write,
but must act.
(IBO)
Creativity, Action, Service (CAS)
is one of the three essential CORE elements
in every student’s Diploma Programme experience.
CAS involves students in a range of activities
alongside their academic studies throughout the Diploma Programme.
The three strands of CAS, which are often interwoven with
particular activities, are characterized as follows:
Creativity: arts, and other experiences that involve
creative thinking.
Action: physical exertion contributing to a healthy
lifestyle.
Service: an unpaid and voluntary exchange that has
a learning benefit for the student.
How are students going to do this?
CAS enables students to enhance their personal and interpersonal
development through the cycle of experiential learning.
What will be the characteristics of a good student CAS
programme?
• Students will have meaningful reflections and
documentation of their activities.
(The aim is for quality rather than quantity.)
• Students have carried out individual and
collaborative CAS activities/projects.
•Students have demonstrated the 8
Learning Outcomes through the entire CAS programme.
(These outcomes are based on the IB
Learner profile.)
The Learning outcomes are…
1. Increased awareness of their own strengths and
areas for growth.
(Derived from being Balanced and Inquirers)
2. Undertaken new challenges
(Derived from being a Risk-taker)
3. Planned and initiated activities
(Derived from being Inquirers and Communicators)
4. Worked collaboratively with others
(Derived from being a Communicator)
5. Shown perseverance and commitment in their
activities.
(Derived from Caring)
6. Engaged with issues of global importance.
(Derived from Knowledgeable, Thinkers)
7. Considered the ethical implications of their actions
.(Derived from Open minded, Principled
and Reflective)
8. Developed new skills.
(Derived from Balanced)
How are we going to know if students have
achieved these outcomes?
Watching the students carrying out their wide
range of challenging activities.
CAS advisers will conduct 3 interviews.
By seeing student reflections and
documentations in a variety of forms that
include:
BlogsPower point presentations
PodcastsVideo/film
Diaries or journals
A good CAS programme should be both challenging and enjoyable, a personal journey of self discovery‑ .
Each individual student has a different starting point,
and therefore different goals and needs, but for many
their CAS activities include experiences that are
profound and life changing.‑
“
All that we do is but a drop of water in the ocean. But if we didn’t contribute that drop
there would be no ocean.”(Mother Theresa)