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How To Prepare For CAS 2nd Interview

The document provides guidance for students preparing for their second CAS interview. Students should be prepared to discuss their CAS experiences to date and how they demonstrate the seven CAS learning outcomes. They need to show that their experiences are balanced across creativity, activity, and service. Students should also plan a month-long CAS project involving collaboration and share their plans for CAS over the summer. Finally, students need to update their CAS portfolio by adding clear and detailed experience descriptions, reflections addressing the learning outcomes, and additional evidence pieces.

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How To Prepare For CAS 2nd Interview

The document provides guidance for students preparing for their second CAS interview. Students should be prepared to discuss their CAS experiences to date and how they demonstrate the seven CAS learning outcomes. They need to show that their experiences are balanced across creativity, activity, and service. Students should also plan a month-long CAS project involving collaboration and share their plans for CAS over the summer. Finally, students need to update their CAS portfolio by adding clear and detailed experience descriptions, reflections addressing the learning outcomes, and additional evidence pieces.

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HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE SECOND CAS INTERVIEW:

Prepare for a public speaking situation


 Preparation should be obvious; avoid reading responses during the interview and referring too often to
notes.
 Engage in positive habits of mind such as poise, articulation, and personal awareness.

What will I need to say?


Be prepared to show evidence and discuss each of the seven learning outcomes of CAS. The culmination
of this interview will be to evaluate if you have yet to begin to demonstrate a learning outcome, have only just
begun to demonstrate a learning outcome, or if you have consistently demonstrated a learning outcome thus
far in your junior year.

1. Prepare to share about your CAS experiences thus far.


2. Identify which learning outcome you have engaged in and the extent of your engagement (Not started,
just begun, consistently).
3. Note if your experiences are balanced between the CAS strands (Creativity, Activity, Service). If they
are not, then how you intend to adjust your CAS Master plan to achieve balance.
4. Share your idea for a month-long CAS project.
5. Share your plans CAS plans for this summer.

Update your Portfolio in Managebac:


DESCRIPTIONS:
___ Are the descriptions entered in Managebac clear and detailed?
__ Who, what, when, where, and frequency are offered.
__ My GOALS for this experience are explained
__ Are there TWO reflections for all ongoing experiences and at least ONE reflection for a one-time
experience?

REFLECTIONS:
__ Do my reflections move beyond being self-centered, only describing what I like or don’t like?
__ Do my reflections do more than simply recount the order of events or the calendar of
activities?
__ *** Do my reflections address and speak to the learning outcomes I have identified for an
experience?

OTHER EVIDENCE:
__ Eventually, I will include 10 pieces of evidence that are not from my voice (photos, supervisor
reviews, etc. That's 10 pieces over all experiences over the past 18 months, not per experience).

CAS PROJECT (Does not need to be completed yet, just planned for):
___ Involved collaboration with other individuals (does not have to be IB students)
___ I have initiated all or at least part of the project
___ Will take at least one month to investigate, plan, and engage in
RESOURCE: LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR CAS
 One or more of the learning outcomes must be documented in your reflections about each of your
CAS experiences
 All 7 learning outcomes must be achieved by the end of CAS
 If an experience isn’t worthy of reflection, it can’t count as a CAS experience
For a more detailed explanation of each learning outcome, see CAS handbook. The two most frequent learning
outcomes that students struggle to connect their CAS experiences to are developed in more depth here.

1. Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth. Students are able to see themselves as individuals with various
abilities and skills, of which some are more developed than others.

2. Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process. A new challenge may be
an unfamiliar experience or an extension of an existing one. The newly acquired or developed skills may be shown
through experiences that the student has not previously undertaken or through increased expertise in an established
area.

3. Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience. Students can articulate the stages from conceiving an idea
to executing a plan for a CAS experience or series of CAS experiences. This may be accomplished in collaboration with
other participants. Students may show their knowledge and awareness by building on a previous experience, or by
launching a new idea or process.

4. Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences. Students demonstrate regular involvement and active
engagement in CAS.

5. Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively. Students are able to identify,
demonstrate and critically discuss the benefits and challenges of collaboration gained through CAS experiences.

6. Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance. Students are able to identify and demonstrate their
understanding of global issues, make responsible decisions, and take appropriate action in response to the issue through
local, national or international action. Think globally but act locally.

The student:
 recognized the global implications of local issues
 is able to identify global issues in the local or national community
 shows awareness of issues of global importance and takes concrete and appropriate actions in response to them
either locally, nationally, or internationally
 gets involved in CAS projects addressing global issues in a local, national, or international context
 develops awareness and responsibility towards a shared humanity.

7. 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.

The student:
 recognizes ethical issues
 is able to explain the social influences on one’s ethical identity
 takes into account cultural context when making a plan or ethical decision
 identifies what is needed to know in order to make an ethical decision
 articulates ethical principles and approaches to ethical decisions
 shows accountability for choices and actions
 is aware of the consequences of choices and actions regarding self, others, involved and the community
 integrates the process of reflection when facing an ethical decision
 shows awareness of the potential and varied consequences of choices and actions in planning and carrying out
CAS experiences.

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