1. What is CAS, Why CAS, How CAS To the parents of the St. Dominic High School

2. CAS  CAS is the International Baccalaureate project based initiatives which extends students in Creativity, Activity and Service to other. It therefore assumes the acronym CAS.

3.  CAS expects students to be Critical in their thinking (Creativity), in the brain storming of ideas and activities. By doing so they understand their own strengths and limitations.

4.  It promotes physical exertion (Action) contributing to a healthy lifestyle, while sensitizing students on the wider community and it needs. Students are therefore expected to give back by performing a Service oriented activity.

5.  Students are expected in our ever changing world to be more flexible and adaptive. In order to develop such persons education also has evolved to embrace a more holistic individual.

6.  CAS is developed around these criteria to create a well rounded student, one who can “help to create a better and more peaceful world” through both logics and what they experience.

7.  At the very heart of CAS is the proposition that learning should derive from the collective planning, action, observation and reflection of students – The Learners Experience.  By using experiences to learn students are able to collectively develop skills and solutions for new or evolving situations.

8. IB Cas Experiential Learning Cycle International Baccalaureate, Creativity, action, service guide, For students graduating in 2010 and thereafter

9.  Learning through experience– experiential learning – is forwarded by an educator, David A. Kolb, who believes:  “the center of learning is the learner’s subjective experience”

10. David A. Kolb Experiential Learning Cycle

11.  Kolb shows that the learning which will be applied in new situations (IB CAS diagram) can only be done after a person has gone through the experience themselves.  Once learning is ‘felt’, concrete experience(Kolb diagram) are uniquely internalized allowing for the continued cycle of learning.

12.  Kolb however notes that the successful experiential learning should involves others. c as  To apply anything to the world it need to involve the world. Unlike logics which applies solutions upon the world and wait upon a result, experiential learning uses the world (creativity, action and service) to develop solutions for its success.

13.  Non experiential learning  The learner believes that there is a "correct" answer to the problem. The learner solves or approaches the problem by using theories, principles, and other data. David Kolb  Experiential learning  The learner likes to gather information and observe everything around him. Because of these traits, the learner is viewed as someone who is creative, open-minded, respectful of other people's perspective, and has a greater awareness of the perceived affordance. David Kolb

14.  Non experiential learning  The learner prefers using a concise and logical approach. He is interested in ideas and abstract concepts over people, prefers lectures and readings over practical experience, and favors being given time to think and analyze through things. David Kolb  Experiential learn  Experiential learning  The learner prefers doing "hands-on" work (action- oriented). This approach uses other people's analysis. There's a preference of intuition over logic. David Kolb

15.  Students get to interact in real time with their environment  They apply what they've learned in the classroom.  They develop leadership and communication skills, become more caring and responsible citizens (August 1993 | Volume 35 | Number 6, Learning Through Service)  Learn to apply the eight CAS learning outcomes in their everyday lives

16.  According to Peterson 2003, “…if you believe in something, you must not just think or talk or write, but must Act,” – experience it. The nature of creativity, action, service. Author & developer: 2012® Kent Mc Namara