cas helping to bring the ib learner profile into the ib diploma

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)