CAS essay

CAS essay

Being involved in the Creativity, Action, and Service activities in an IB school has vastly contributed in my personal development within these two years. In every activity you have to have sufficient learning outcome. The eight learning outcome are Increasing your awareness of your own strengths and weaknesses,  Undertaken new challenges, Planned and initiated activities, Worked collaboratively with others, shown perseverance and commitment in your activities, Engaged with issues of global importance, Considered the ethical implications of your actions and Developed new skills. Every activity that you do have to have these eight learning outcomes and the activities have to fall under creativity, action and service.

For example I have done two activities in all three areas of CAS activity. I have Photography and art work as my Creativity, basketball and skiing as Action, volunteerism and sports leadership program as a service. All these activities have most of the required learning outcomes. Through this CAS activity we learn to assess ourselves about our strength and weakness and undertake challenges in each activity. We also learn to plan and initiate activities such as organizing games in sports leadership program, work collaboratively with others in basketball game, showed perseverance and commitment when volunteering in the school in Nepal, engaged with issues of global activities in sports leadership, considering the ethical considerations in art work and photography, and develop new skills in skiing and basketball activities.

As being new to the place and understanding the socio-cultural aspects of the surrounding people and areas, things has turned out to be quite different than the place I come from and because of me being new to this system/ place I have faced many challenges such as collaborating with people. Because we have different cultural background I considered many ethical considerations such as use of languages. Most of the activities that I am involved were done here in Switzerland. Because of this there was more complications and hard work I had to do in order to meet the criteria. Not all of the activities meet the eight learning outcome but they all contain at least five to seven outcomes. In each and every activities you are committed to the particular skills that you learn. The whole activities itself has become part of personal development. In  every activity you cover the eight learning outcome and through these eight ;earning outcomes you involve yourself and face the challenges and gain confidence becoming a developed individual. In my case i believe that through these activities i have gain much more than what i have given. It has let me approach to a different circumstances and perceive things differently. These activities really has helped me in my personal development and made be become a genuine person. 

CAS supervisor sheets

CAS supervisor form of skiing

CAS supervisor form of Photography

CAS supervisor form of Sports leadership program

                                        CAS supervisor form of voluntary work

                                   CAS supervisor sheet of a Week in unfamiliar activity

Sports leadership

Reflection on Sports leadership program
Sports leadership program is an activity that covers all the CAS requirements. It covers creativity where we have to come up with a set of games own our own and modify the rules that is acceptable for  the activity, Action where we do the warm up exercise and involve in the games organised by class fellows, and services such as organizing sports day program and teaching games and about fair plays to the junior classes.
A great deal of work and time is used in this activity. You have to meet all the eight learning outcomes. From the learning outcomes of this activity i learned to undertake new challenges such as approaching to the whole class and teach them games, when teaching games and sharing my creativity i learned to assess my own strength and weakness. Most of the times after the session everyone would comment on and give feed back on your lesson. I was also able to planned and initiate activities such as setting up games and planning the lessons, then you also learn to collaborate with others. Sometimes we were made into groups and have to work together to come up with a lesson planing. In every lesson i had to show my commitment and have perseverance to make a good example of sports leaders. I learnt about fair play during this session and also taught about fair play to the junior classes. This directly links to global importance in every sports. You also learn about the ethical considerations and plan lessons according  to the students and the classes. You try to respect their culture and make an exception to students who thinks the lesson has ethical clashes. And finally you learn many skills thorough out the activities you do and gain experiences. All of this has greatly covered the activity and has become a suitable activity for CAS activity.