International Baccalaureate (IB) Creativity, action, service - CAS

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Creative and fun ways to meet your CAS requirement in Hong Kong.

ITS Tutorial School provides two learning activities which qualify for the CAS part of your Diploma ( please however, check with your school IB coordinator as they are the ones to make the final decision ). Click the links for further details of courses/classes offered.

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Creativity, action, service (CAS ) is a mandatory core component of the IB Diploma Programme. It aims to provide a 'counterbalance' to the academic rigour of the educational programme. Before the 2010 examination there was a 150 hour requirement, with an approximately equal distribution of creativity, action, and service. However, from the 2010 examination and onwards the IB has abandoned the hours requirement for a new measuring system. This has been done for two reasons: first, to ensure that students engage in meaningful activities and, second, to decrease the amount of CAS fraud (i.e. claiming hours which have not been completed). Students are now expected to have two CAS activities for each CAS category and students need to prove that they are participating in CAS activities on a weekly basis (though not necessarily on all CAS categories each week). Moreover, students must have one CAS project which spans more than three months and bridges two CAS components e.g. creativity and service. Finally, one must prove that the CAS activities have resulted in the eight projected outcomes of the project (one CAS activity can have multiple outcomes).

 CAS outcomes

• Increase awareness of your strengths and areas for growth

• Undertake new challenges

• Plan and initiate activities

• Work collaboratively with others

• Show perseverance and commitment

• Engage with issues of global importance

• Consider ethical implications

• Develop new skills

CAS Aims

The function of CAS is to allow IB schools the opportunity to "give students the means to learn through experience [and] how to take action in the service of others."

All the portions (creativity, action, and service) are vaguely defined and should, according to the International Baccalaureate Organisation, be interpreted as imaginatively as possible, so that a wide array of different activities can qualify for CAS. The learning outcomes and the quality of the CAS activity are of utmost importance.

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