CAS Planning and Reflecting/Writing

[Julie]

CAS Planning/Organizing and CAS Journal Writing

*In-Depth Information and Suggestions on Planning a CAS activity effectively and reflecting on the activity in your CAS journal after the activity has finished.

CAS Project Organization

What? Who? When/deadline date?

• Publicity
  
• Information
  
• Venue
  
• Materials Needed
  

Other Details to be arranged?

• Teachers' Permission
  
• Transportation
  
• Permission Slips
  
• Money Envelopes
  
• Cash Box, etc. etc.
  

General CAS Evaluation Form

Student Name:

Activity:

Supervisor:

NOTE: Write the following answers for each question in a short paragraph form

• What did you do at your activity?
  
• What were you hoping to accomplish by this activity? Were your expectations met?
  
• What difficulties did you encounter?
  
• What did you learn about yourself and about others?
  
• Did anyone help you? If so, how?
  
• How did this activity benefit other people and the institution?
  
• Is there anything about the activity that you would change to improve it?
  
• Total time spend on Activity?
  
  • C hours=?
    
  • A hours=?
    
  • S hours=?
    

Date:

Student's Signature

Supervisor's Signature

Specific CAS Form- Creativity Reflection Form

Name:

Date:

NOTE: Fill in the following blanks as clearly and as detailed as possible.

1. The activity I carried out for Creativity was: _______________________
   
2. I have learned these new skills/techniques:_____________________
   
3. As a result of learning these activities I am now able to: ____________
   
4. The biggest difficulty I faced doing this activity was:_________________
   
5. I overcame this difficulty by:__________________________________
   
6. What I have learned about myself from this activity: ________________
   

Specific CAS Form- Action Reflection Form

Name:

Date:

I completed the following activity:____________

NOTE: comment on the following aspects.

This activity has helped me to improve these areas of physical fitness:

• Strength
  
• Flexibility
  
• Stamina
  

How had carrying out this activity helped you to improve:

• Technique
  
• Your self-discipline by fitting into a regular training schedule
  
• Your willingness to accept advice
  
• Your ability to cope with setbacks
  

NOTE: Fill out the following as clearly and as detailed as possible (paragraph or two)

What have you learned about your own competitiveness?

What have been your greatest challenges in carrying out this activity?

How have you overcome these challenges?

Specific CAS Form- Service Reflection Form- no. 1

Name:

Date:

NOTE: Answer these questions in paragraph form

I perform service for the school or wider community by:_______________

My service has helped others in the following ways:__________________

NOTE: Comment on the following in paragraph form

Ability to communicate with others:____________________

Organization:____________________________________

Awareness of others needs:_________________________

Ability to listen to other people:_______________________

Leadership skills:________________________________

Specific CAS Form- Service Reflection Form- no. 2

Name:

Service:

Supervisor:

Institution in which you worked and / or name of the person you visited:

NOTE: Answer the following questions in paragraph form

Short description of your Service:________________________________________________________

Did you find the experience worthwhile? Has it taught you something? Did you feel useful?____________

What / who helped you most in reflecting on what you were doing?

NOTE: Comment on the following:

• In particular, has your Service experience helped you develop the following?
  
  • Sense of Responsibility
    
  • Compassion
    
  • Awareness of different cultures
    
  • Sense of service to the others and to the needs of the community
    
  • Initiative
    
  • Leadership
    
  • Group cooperation/Teamwork
    
  
  
  • What difficulties have you met?
    
  • Relationship with:
    
  • Other students involved in the service:
    
  • The people you have been assisting:
    
  • The institution you have been working with:
    
  • The supervisor of this service?
    

How would you suggest that this service could be improved?__________________

Some CAS Ideas which involve two or more aspects

You can always finds some friends who also need C and A hours, get together and do some of the ideas inm mentioned as a group effort and have a teacher monitor you and sign off that you did it. We had something similar to a "humanitarian race" organized in our city, and some students participated by running in the race while also helping advertise and promote the race by making posters, web page designing, etc. In order to run the race, everyone had to pay a small fee, like 2 dollars, and at the end of the race they got a little prize, like a tT-shirt, for participating. Therefore, that activity involve C, A and S.

C- the promoting, designing, advertising

A- running in the race

S- donation to the race (humanitarian cause) and promotion of the race

Here are some more specific ideas I can come up with (hope they are possible/help you out):

1. Create an after school read-out-loud for younger students

• C- make posters for the read-out-loud/advertise it, create small treats for the little children who come (scrap books, etc.)
  
• A- the reading and managing of the event
  
• S- reading to the little children
  

(this could also be done for underprivileged children, children in orphanages, etc.)

2. Organize a "sports day" for the students at your school

• C- advertising, organization, posters, activities, maybe design T-shirts/water bottles (our school did that)
  
• A- the actual sports
  
• S- service for the students, or you could do it for an orphanage, underprivileged children etc. (like I said in the previous idea)
  

3. Organize a poetry competition

4. Ask someone at your school if you could create a web page for something they may need (this could also involve photography alongside web designing and the service you would be doing for your school)

etc etc...

there's a lot out there, take initiative and you'll do fine, get people enthusiastic and involve them, you're leadership could really be needed if people just aren't willing to create such an event on their own. There are group effort ideas.

Edited January 14, 2011 by ~Julie~

[sarahlouise]

Hey, firstly thanks a lot for this.

I just have a question. Would you fill this out once at the completion of the activity, or at several points during the activity, for example on a weekly bases, something like that?

[nametaken]

Hey, firstly thanks a lot for this.

I just have a question. Would you fill this out once at the completion of the activity, or at several points during the activity, for example on a weekly bases, something like that?

A reflection form is filled out at the completion of an activity, while a planning form is completed prior to beginning the said activity. During the activity, the best way to record what you're doing is through a diary, a scrapbook with photographs and there are quite a few other ways. To be honest, the wackier and more original the way you use to record what you're doing during an activity, I think is better.

[sarahlouise]

Hey, firstly thanks a lot for this.

I just have a question. Would you fill this out once at the completion of the activity, or at several points during the activity, for example on a weekly bases, something like that?

A reflection form is filled out at the completion of an activity, while a planning form is completed prior to beginning the said activity. During the activity, the best way to record what you're doing is through a diary, a scrapbook with photographs and there are quite a few other ways. To be honest, the wackier and more original the way you use to record what you're doing during an activity, I think is better.

Thanks a bunch.

So forms like above would be for the official reflection at the end, but when people talk about their diaries, things like that, that's just how they record their hours and activities, not the overall, official reflection?

[nametaken]

Hey, firstly thanks a lot for this.

I just have a question. Would you fill this out once at the completion of the activity, or at several points during the activity, for example on a weekly bases, something like that?

A reflection form is filled out at the completion of an activity, while a planning form is completed prior to beginning the said activity. During the activity, the best way to record what you're doing is through a diary, a scrapbook with photographs and there are quite a few other ways. To be honest, the wackier and more original the way you use to record what you're doing during an activity, I think is better.

Thanks a bunch.

So forms like above would be for the official reflection at the end, but when people talk about their diaries, things like that, that's just how they record their hours and activities, not the overall, official reflection?

Yes.

[Victoria Lawal]

THANKS

[crocus26]

Thank you so much!

[mellonstarburst]

Thanks!!

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[rhapsodysiscaa]

Wait.. so Creativity, Action and Service have to be related??

Can it not be related?

[turtle turtle]

 

Wait.. so Creativity, Action and Service have to be related??

Can it not be related?

 

they don't have to

[signore]

Just follow the guidelines mentioned on the managebac.

[^stress^IB>H2pi/4]

Wow cute layout thanks, I've just been left in the haze until now... we were just told to 'reflect' on our CAS... insightful eh?