1. CAS Stages & Meaningful Reflection
CAS Meeting #3
CAS Stages & Meaningful Reflection

2. CAS STAGES
We spoke about engaging in CAS experiences with awareness & intention
Being more aware and more intentional with your activities should create experiences that are more valuable to you
CAS stages can help you be more aware and more intentional

3. These CAS stages represent a process & sequence that can assist students in many aspects of their life.
They follow a process whereby they investigate an interest that often raises questions & curiosity, prepare by learning more, take some form of action, reflect on what they have done along the way, and demonstrate their understanding and the process.

4. What is reflection?
Reflexio – the act of bending back; or looking backwards
What does reflection mean to you?
Why would you reflect?
What would you gain from it?
When would you reflect?

5. But what IIIIIIISSSSS REFLECTION?
Reflection is……
Honest
Varied
Done in many different ways
Sometimes boring
Difficult
Sometimes creative
Building self-awareness
Necessary for learning
Surprising
Sometimes really fun
Helpful for planning
Done alone or with others
About thoughts, feelings, ideas
Reflection is not…..
Only led by teachers
Forced
Right or wrong
Good or bad
To be graded
Difficult
Copying what someone else said
Predictable
To be judged by others
Done to plase someone else
A waste of time
Only written
Only discussion

6. QUESTIONS TO ASK DURING REFLECTION. . .
What happened?
Students retell memorable moments, identify what was important or influential, what went well or was difficult, obstacles and successes
How do i feel?
Students articulate emotional responses to their experiences
Ideas?
Notation of any generative possibilities
Questions?
What can be discovered about people, processes or issues?
Activity
Think of a CAS experience you recently engaged in and ask yourself these questions.
What are the possible ways you could reflect?

7. Next steps. . .
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