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.