Creativity, Action, Service
Talk all about CAS. The joy of the IB.
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How's everyone doing on their CAS? What activiities does your school offer (especially for Service) For Service: my school has a Cambodia trip with this ngo called hope international. obviously you have to pay but i went last year and its defenitely a trip that changed my life. we stayed in a little town called pursat, between pnom penh and the famous ankor wat (cant spell) and we help build wells and schools. my whole sense perseption (tok word there) changed, and i see the world in a completely different view - however cliche that sounds. im glad that i did ib,a nd that cas exists. but i know a lot of people out there abo****ely despises cas. tell me your opinions wha…
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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 expecta…
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I'm going to CMUNC this year and I was wondering if anyone else in IB would be in attendance. so...anyone?
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The answer to this question comes down to one thing - who exactly is it that decides what counts for CAS?? Answer: your CAS Co-ordinator! Not the IBO, not people here, not other schools and other CAS Co-ordinators, not your friends or your teachers... the individual person in charge of CAS at your school. You'd be amazed how much this varies between schools - some schools are happy for you to write online blogs and play videogames, whereas other schools would laugh in your face if you suggested those things as CAS. Some of you may even be laughing now - but if you could get CAS for those things, wouldn't you? So, if you want to be really 100% sure that an a…
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I'm a first year IB student. I realized that we have do this CAS thing for a total of 150 hours, so I signed up for some activities both in school and out of school. Our CAS coordinator told us to submit all the reflections on the CAS activities on a website called ManageBac and asked us to write a reflection on every 10 hours of activities completed. However, I'm not sure what I should include in my reflections. For example, if I practice guitar at home for 10 hours per week, does that mean I have to do a reflection on what I practiced during those 10 hours per week to qualify for my Creativity hours? Also, is there a certain format we can follow to write our reflections…
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So, I've recently learned that I have to do 150 hours of CAS! Would really appreciate some ideas as to what I should do. What are you doing/did??? What I currently do: Creativity- I have played violin for 7 years (am terrible). Can I count lessons or anything towards my CAS hours even though it's not a new activity? I learn Japanese outside of school with a uni student tutoring me. Does it count? Action- I have played netball for 5 months of the year outside school for a number of years... again, can I count it even though I've done it before? Ideas please! Service- Ideas please! I have been thinking about studying Law post-IB... is there any way I can count relevant work…
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Hi all, I'm starting IB this year, and was told in the spring of last year that I would have to do a CAS Project. The thing is, we were told we're not allowed to work with another organization. Are we expected to actually create our own charity from scratch? That's not a huge problem, I'm just kind of confused. Thanks!
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Hi everyone,please tell me more about what is ethical implicatons?
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Do you write your CAS diary?! How should it be structured? And do you describe every activity you do?
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Hi there, ;] There's a problem that bugs me all the time: action hours. Throughout the previous year this section was the one containing the smallest amount of hours (while creativity and service had more than enough). So, I'm asking for your help here. What kind of good and recognised activities are known to earn plenty of cas hours every month? Just brainstorm them randomly. ;]
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Could someone please explain to me what a CAS project is and what it entails? My school failed to mention anything to do with this and I've heard that you have to do it for 18 months, so please clarify what I have to do for it.
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So I desperately need help on creating my own CAS project. I need an idea this month, so please, give me some ideas or ones that you are doing so I can get an idea of what to do!
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The title is self-explanatory. Are you allowed to learn a language for creativity?
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I am supposed to organise my own CAS project and I am looking for ideas. So, I just wanted to know what are you doing/did you do for your CAS project? Any information is helpful.
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Failing CAS? 1 2
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Hello, I'd like to know, just out of curiosity - what happens if you fail to get enough CAS? I heard some time ago that if it happens, you get an extra year to complete CAS, and then you get the diploma. Are there any other consequences (besides getting the diploma later)?
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Do you have any ideas for a CAS activity that counts for both Action and Creativity? We need one activity that combines two kinds of hours and I already finished Service. Got any ideas? Help is greatly appreciated.
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I just realized that most schools don't follow the 150 hours quota that IB set up. My school has a requirement of 360hours and a 40 hour cap on an activity, so that's quite a lot. What's yours? And why do schools have differently set amount of CAS hours required?
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Starting to plan CAS projects and activities . I reached moat of the learning outcomes already, but was not sure how to do the Ethics one. It reads as follows: "Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions: Students show awareness of the consequences of choices and actions in planning and carrying out CAS experiences." Ideas for projects reaching this leaning outcome, or just help on figuring out what it is would be helpful. thanks
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Currently, I'm getting my creativity hours by practicing jazz music on the piano. My CAS coordinator told us that playing instruments was fine for creativity, as long as it was something new (I only played RCM classical piano until then). I've read that students need to get their hours signed by a supervisor for the activities, but I'm only practicing at home. I'm pretty sure my mom can't be a supervisor. Will these hours spent practicing count even without a signature? My school has a yellow CAS sheet, where we only need to put in our CAS activity name and number of hours spent on it. I don't see anything that needs a supervisor signature. Basically, my question is, do…
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CAS Requirements - Questions
by Guest- 14 replies
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This topic concerns the statement made by charlotteee ( http://www.ibsurvival.com/topic/5-ib-students-starter-pack-ib-faq-syllabus-links/ ) 1)First of all, are the requirements stated above still up-to-date? (or: Do they still affect me if I start the IB in September 2014/ exams: May 2016?) 2) And what exactly is meant with the " Long-Term project/activity that last for at least the duration of the two IB years"? 3) Are there any other general information about CAS in general? Thanks
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So my friends and I are arguing over this, and I need the advice of the internet: Can I count going to concerts for action hours? In my opinion yes because it is a LOT of physical activity, but I'm not sure if it counts. Otherwise, can I count it for creativity in some way? Also, I'm teaching myself some American Sign Language. Could that possibly be creativity?
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How many CAS hours did you finish IB with?
by Guest HayashiEsme- 17 replies
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Like the topic says:P Someone in my school a few years ago graduated with a two thousand CAS hours and got 43 in the end, props to her, she got into an Ivy League with full scholarship I believe. Hats off to her, really. I'm still in my first 4 months of IB really, but I've actually finished my CAS hours already. Well not quite, because I can't write my reflections for my ECAs and get them approved until Year 12, so I won't count it as quite complete. But yeah, I hope I'm not the only creepy curious one here:)
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i am really confused how to write a casreport, my supervisor is not even thinking about how to solve this problem for us? If anyone can solve this problem please reply :-)
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I think I'm going to have a hard time with Action since I'm not especially athletic. I was wondering how other people felt about this. Any insight would be nice.
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I thought I should create a thread about this since there seems to be a variety of things different schools allow students to do for CAS. Are there any things that you are NOT allowed to count as CAS in your school? Do you know something that another school has allowed or not allowed and etc? For instance, me and a group of friends needed creativity and thought of starting the yearbook for IB Alumni 08 but our CAS coordinator refused to accept it and said that 'we would do it anyway' which is not true and then he says that the IBO won't let it. However, I have heard that there is another school in Finland in which people can work on the yearbook for creativity which I th…
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Hey guys, Basically, I was wondering if there is an offical CAS deadline. My supervisor wants everything handed in in January (2011), but everyone is still short of a couple of hours. I was wondering if there's an offical Ib deadline or if it's up to the supervisor? Cheers Jahad
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I am a junior and I was wondering if experimenting with cooking could count for creativity hours. Could I cook things on my own or would I have to attend some sort of class for it to count?
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Conversation with my friend: Him: Would some kind of video game count as creative? Me:Look it up. I doubt it. Him: What seriously? That's dumb, video games can be really creative Me: Yes, the VIDEO game is creative, not you when you're playing it. Whoever made the game could have qualified for the hours, but not you. It's not that dumb Him: Lol seriously though, you can create many things in video games. Depending on the game. Some are just applications that you can use as your own sandbox. Help me settle this argument? Cause frankly I'm not sure anymore, but still leaning towards it not qualifying.
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I thought I had everything I needed in the way of CAS, however my Coordinator told me I need to add a small project (10 hours) to my creative aspect. What can I do?
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Do you like CAS? 1 2 3 4 5
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Personally, I despise CAS . First and foremost, it's insane to require 150 (or, I've heard, even more than that for some schools!) hours of CAS activities on top of all the more serious/important aspects of IB, such as the extended essay, exams, or internal assessments. Also, I oppose CAS to some extent on a matter of principle... I got involved in IB because I wanted a good academic challenge, and these CAS activities have nothing to do with that. The one and only kind thing I have to say about CAS is the fact that it provided some good material to write college application essays.
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So I started IB in February this year, so its been about... Half a year since I've started. I've been doing most of my CAS regularly, but I've missed a few reflections. We've been advised to do at least one every month, but there are times when I've done 2 in one month and none in the month after, but then started again the following month. Also, there have been problems with my long-term project which involves visiting an elderly person every week. She's been real sick these past few months so I haven't been able to do anything. i'm getting paranoid about all this as I heard that so many people fail IB because of CAS! Does anyone know what it actually takes to fail…
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Please help me. I do not have a CAS project. And even worse. I was randomly selected for the sample CAS projects being sent to IB. I need to submit something before MAY 1. I have 30 days. I am so ****ed. please help me.
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I had a few ideas of things I'd like to do as well as things I'm going to be doing this year and I was wondering if any of them might count for CAS: - I'm in my school's book club, and we discuss a book each month. Could this count for creativity? - Could hikes with Environmental Club count for active? - I know that activities advocating a religion don't count (such as teaching religious education at my church), but could making the lessons plans for this count for creativity, or is any religious-related activity not allowed? - Learning an instrument - would this be allowed for creativity, if it was outside of school? - If I took a language course at a college over the s…
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Hello all, thought I'd like to start this thread for other people also and clear things up. So it's finally time for me to start doing my CAS forms and stuff 10 days before everything needs to be done. I have enough activities that fill in the hours and the results criteria. I'm wondering though, what are the types of evidence we can use aside from photos? FYI my school's using ManageBac. That may change things.
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Hi guys, I have a slight problem with my CAS, I did all the hours and stayed on track with posting all my reflections on ManageBac but I'm facing one problem, I need to hand in my evaluation or reflection essay for my activities before next week and I never did it before Our CAS coordinator gave us a sheet that may help us in writing the evaluations but honestly it was so vague. So can someone please show me an example of a CAS reflection essay?
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YOGA for cas 1 2
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Hey everyone!is it possible to do yoga for action or creativity?has anyone done it for cas? my friends and i have been trying to convince my teacher to allow us to do it.If you have any ideas that i can use to convince her,please feel free to share it with me! THANKS A LOT!
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Does having a job count for CAS hours? And is it a good idea to work during the school year?
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Hello everyone! I have been offered a part-time position at a library, with about 8-10 hours a week. I would absolutely love to work there and it is a good way to earn some money on the side. Also, I think it would be good experience for me as I have not had a paid job before. The problem is that I am very involved with other extra-curricular activities and as I am in my first year of the IB Diploma Program , I want to be able to focus on my studies and get high marks. Since I can't do it all, either the job goes or some extra-curricular activities. Therefore, I am thinking of declining the job offer unless it can count for CAS hours or if it is beneficial for m…
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My friend wanted to tutor me Math and teach me piano so she could get service hours, but my CAS coordinator said we can't...He said the IBO won't allow it, and I've heard of other people doing it in other schools. I'm just wondering if anybody here has done this for service.
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Hi, just trying to figure out what I should do for my CAS project, I don't have very good ideas, or know what to start with. Were any of you in the same situation as I was, then eventually did a decent project?
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Global Values
by WVW- 4 replies
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Does anybody have some suggestions for completing the global values learning outcome? All of my current ideas were rejected by my advisor so I need something that can be done in a short time frame that will satisfy this requirement. Ideas? Please help.
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I've only got 87.5 hours in CAS and I did everything the school told me to and did every single CAS project the school suggested and somehow everyone has enough hours and I don't. Will I fail the IB diploma at this rate? I'm in my last year btw.
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So, our final CAS deadline is comming up fairly quickly and our IB cordinator keeps reminding us about our final CAS reflections that we have to write. I have a rough idea of what I want to do for mine but I would love to have some sort of example or outline or something to follow... I'm a little unsure if we are to reflect on each individual CAS project, or our CAS experiance as a whole. I can't find any examples of final reflection online so I was wondering if this is something specific to our school or if everyone writes them? assumin geveryone does have to do reflections, are there specific guidelines that IB will check or do we just have to meet the 8 criteria and ca…
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I just wanted to make sure that playing an instrument (or singing) counts as creativity. I'm in IB2 and basically all my creativity hours are from playing the guitar, piano or singing and now my CAS coordinator (who at the beginning of IB1 said that playing an instrument was indeed creativity) started complaining about how playing an instrument should count as action and not creativity, as only performing with the instrument is creativity. However, I won't be able to perform anywhere this year (due to my stage fright and lack of opportunities to do so), and I haven't performed with e.g. guitar which I haven't been playing for a while. So, is my coordinator just being stup…
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I'm currently doing several CAS experiences but I'm looking for something that will meet the "global engagement" learning outcome. Is there anything you can do that count as creativity and "global engagement"? For example, writing a research paper on a global issue? Is that acceptable, would it count for CAS and meet this learning outcome?
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How many CAS relfections do I need for the IB, and what should I write about, lenght, etc..
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Hey people, I have just started my second year and also just started filling in my CAS forms. 1. Is there any prescribed CAS form? Like, all IB students across the world have to fill in the same form? 2. Is there any particular format of filling the form in? Please help, I have filled in 2 forms for 2 activities, and have the gut feeling that I'm doing it wrong. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you! Work hard party harder!
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So I live in the Netherlands but I don't speak Dutch. There aren't any sports clubs at my school and all the Dutch ones are, well, in Dutch. What can I do for my action hours then? Does MUN count for CAS points, and if so for Creativity, Action or Service? What else could I do for action?
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hello, I'm from an IB school in Istanbul, Turkey and As far as I understand we have to do one global project as one of our CAS activities. In our school last years grads did an recycling project with a school in Germany. If anyone would like to do something like this with your class you can post here. it would be a great CAS project and if we are close we could visit each others schools and help out with the project kinda like the Comenius projects (http://ec.europa.eu/...comenius_en.htm) of the UN. thanks for your consideration, .. .
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Well, for me, I'm all done with CAS. Just need to do a bit here and there to show the exalted IBO that I'm doing something. And if you don't know already, I'm May '08.
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In our school there is only DP. Every year about 35-40 students start Year 1 and 25-28 start Year 2. Unfortunately, we have to do CAS paperwork - print our description of activity with photos, collect signatures, bring them to CAS coordinator.It is really time and money consuming. Also, our only evidence can be photos(since we have to print the forms). I was surfing IBSurvival when I found this program called ManageBac. I quickly glanced at it and it looked GREAT. I want to convince my CAS coordinator to use it, but before I try to do that I have to find strong arguments and make a research on it. I do not want to convince my school to use, when it turns out to be a pie…
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