What is CAS?

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What is CAS?

• CAS is experimental education
• CAS is DOING!
• Min. 150 hours (2,5 h. per week)

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What is CAS?

• C Creativity
• Drama, music, artwork, sculpture, writing...

A Action Team sports, bike riding, golf,
tennis...
S Service Social unpaid service
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Aim of CAS (I)

• That students GROW AS COMPASSIONATE AND AWARE
  CITIZENS BY learning FROM their own personal CAS
  experience THROUGH ongoing reflection

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Aim of CAS (II)
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CAS....

• ...is learning FROM experience
• Learning from experience is only possible THROUGH
  reflection

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Reflection

• BEFORE Setting goals
• DURING Monitoring, assessing
• AFTER Evaluation, improvement

HOW? By using diaries
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Important

• You should ENJOY the activities
• Try something new and challenging
• HAVE FUN ?

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What is CAS about?

• Education of the whole person
• Experiential Learning
• Learning by doing
• Setting goals
• Ongoing reflection
• CAS without a goal is not good CAS
• CAS without reflection is not CAS

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• ATTITUDE is what counts, not hours. CAS is about
  real commitment, being involved with others, and
  giving of your time and talents. Its not about
  counting. Its doing it because you want to, not
  because you have to.

OR
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A Good CAS Project

• as a new role for the student
• is a real task with set goals
• it does have consequences
• there is Learning by Doing
• there is ongoing, guided Reflection

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How to start

• Find an interesting activity
• From the school or chosen by you
• Find a supervisor
• Teacher at the school, CAS coordinator, sport
  trainer etc.
• Neither friends nor close family members
• Start your reflection
• Make plans
• Start your activity

Action
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Possible projects at MH (courses)

• P.E. (leikfimi, LÍK) (A)
• The school choir (kór, KÓR151) (C)
• Theatre (leiklist, LEI103) (C)
• NFMH (C,A,S)
• IB representative
• IB Gathering in september introduction to
  Pre-IB (C,S)
• Lagningadagar (next semester)
• IB trip next semester (C,S)

Creativity
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Possible service projects

• The Red Cross (several projects)
• UNICEF
• Association of the Blind (Blindrafélagið)
• Rescue teams
• Other?

Service