documents
Below are some documents that you might need as a CAS Coordinator. Hope you find something here you can use.
CAS Documents
CAS Quick Start Guide (the essential elements .pdf)
CAS Quick Start Guide (the same document as above but as a Word doc that you can edit to fit your needs)
CAS Quick Start Guide (if you would like this document in Pages send me an email because WordPress won’t let me upload a Pages doc)
CAS Learning Outcome #7: Consider the ethical implications (ideas for how to meet the most difficult Learning Outcome)
Rowland High Self Study and Questionnaire 2011 (just in case it might help out a fellow IB Coordinator for the 5-Year Review)
Activity Proposal Map (a form that could be used to pre-approve CAS activities)
CAS Hour Documentation (a form that could be used by students to log their CAS hours)
Yearly or Summer Proposal (a form that could be used to help students plan CAS activities)
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IB Documents
The following documents were removed at the request of the IBO. These documents are available at the OCC (Online Curriculum Centre). To access the OCC you’ll need a username and password which you can obtain from your IB Coordinator.
Handbook of Procedures 2011
IB Learner Profile
CAS Guide
CAS/PQ
8 Learning Outcomes
Model Form A: CAS Progress Form
Model Form B: CAS Individual Student Completion Form
you dont have a copy of the latest CAS form for students graduating in 2010
Actually, I do. It’s under Documents and what I have posted is Form A and Form B from the new CAS Curriculum. I think this is what you’re referring to.
Are the students who graduate in 2011 not going to make a Final Student Summary? Do I only need to fill out the forms that you are talking about.
Thank you!
Louise
Hi Louise. You are correct, students in the graduating class of 2010 and beyond do not do a Student Final Summary (SFS). Instead, students focus on completing the 8 Learning Outcomes, providing evidence for meeting each of the 8 Learning Outcomes, and coming close to earning 150 hours in each of the categories of Creativity, Action, and Service. It’s much easier now for students than it used to be. Hope this helps
Thank you for your answer. Who is going to fill out this form? Me or the students?
*All student have had their 150 hour 50 in each categori.
*Their leaning outcomes are under control.
What else do I need to do?
We (but who) has to fill out this Form A and Form B. Does it have to bee both forms or what?
I think it’s quite hard to find informations about this. Any ideas?
Thank you.
Louise
Model Form A is a form you could use (or a variation of it) to track students’ progress and to chart your meetings with students. Our school uses ManageBac which is AWESOME so it makes Form A for me irrelevant. Model Form B is what your students will have each Activity Advisor complete and sign for each activity. Then the students will submit these forms to you, the CAS Coordinator. Again, ManageBac does all of this for me paperlessly so I don’t use these forms at all. They’re just model forms anyways, guidelines. You can create your own system; use whatever works for you. Students no longer turn in self-evaluations per se because the self-evaluation is built in to the Learning Outcomes automatically. Evidence for each activity a student completes has self-reflection built in. Evidence to prove students met certain Learning Outcomes in a particular activity should show these 5 elements: what happened, why it happened, how it happened, what its value was, and what the student learned from it. These 5 things are what IBO will be looking for if you ever get audited by them
Hope this helps.
Do the students still need to hand in selvevaluations +AD1/forms on every activity/project? Or did it end this year.
Thank you again
Louise
Thank you for your answer!!!
It helped me a lot!
All the best
Louse
Hi again,
You said that we have to make: “Evidence to prove students met certain Learning Outcomes in a particular activity should show these 5 elements: what happened, why it happened, how it happened, what its value was, and what the student learned from it.” But how do we prove that? Is there a certain form? Isn’t what used to be in the old selfevaluations and AD1-forms?
Thank you.
Louise
Students can provide evidence of meeting the learning outcomes in a variety of ways; there’s no “one” form anymore. They can submit a written journal, photos, provide you with a link to a website, provide you with a link to their blog, provide you with a link to a Youtube video, etc… The possibilities are limited only by you and what you will accept. With the implementation of the new CAS curriculum with the graduating class of 2010 students can provide evidence for completing an activity and/or learning outcomes in a variety of ways that is limited only by their imagination and what you will accept.
I use ManageBac and the methods for providing evidence are displayed within the program so students are given examples of how to provide evidence for their activities and learning outcomes. You might want to check it out because it makes the life of a CAS Coordinator so much easier. Check em out at ManageBac.com
Hope this helps. If not, keep asking questions
I am a new CAS coordinator.Could you please let me know what exactly is this CAS PQ and Wihen do we have to submit this.Ours is a new IB school and we are awaiting DP authirisation.What do i do from here on when our first batch of DP students start from Sep 2010.
Hi Mohammed. I’ll check with my IB Coordinator to see when the CAS/PQ is submitted because I can’t remember. All I can remember is that I had to complete it only one time and I think, I THINK, I submitted it during the first year after we became an authorized IB school. I’ll check and get back to you.
if your school is starting the IB Diploma in September 2010, I assume your students (first generation) are going to take IB exams in May 2012, aren’t they? Therefore, the CAS/PQ deadline for your school will be 31 January 2011. (about four/five months after having started with the Diploma)
The 31 July is the deadline for schools starting the IB Diploma in February/March and taking IB exams in November session.
I hope this can be of help and apologies for not having been clear in my previous message.
You can count on me for whatever you need and I’m able to do
Warm regards
María Inés
Thank You Steve
I really like your APM form, but I have one question. In box 1 on your effects side you refer to a Performance Criteria Form. Do you have a copy of that or is it something from the CAS handbook? Thanks.
Your site is really helpful and a stress reliever. Our program starts for the first time in the Fall and you provide great information. Thanks again.
Hi there. Thanx for the nice words, I really appreciate that. I’ll email you the Performance Criteria. I removed it from my site here because it’s not used to evaluate students’ CAS work since the new curriculum was implemented with the graduating class of 2010. But I’ll still email it to you; it still might help out in some way. You never know. I’m going to email you at brownb@mcsin-k12.org. If I have the wrong email address or if you don’t get it please let me know. Take care.
Greetings mate… I LOVE your site, its like an oasis in the desert. Im a CAS co ordinator for this school in India and we start IBDP from August 5, 2010. I have no clue how to go about with the formalities and now this corner of yours is like an elixir of life… thanks a ton! cheers. Hey, while I’m at it can you guide me how to go about writing the CAS policy statement? i mean… there IS such a thing right?
Hi there. Thank you so much for your kind words, you made my day! I’m not sure what a CAS policy statement is, can you give me a few more details? Thanx again for your nice words, I appreciate your encouragement
Hey Steve, I figured it out with the help of a few other people, the CAS policy form is actually completely upto you if you wanna have it or not, I made mine and will send you a copy but it basically comprises the aims and rules and regulations your school’s gonna adhere to regarding CAS. Anyways, while Im at it, could you do me a huge favor and let me know the dates and deadlines (CAS) when IV gotta submit what to the IBO if the term 1 at our school starts on august 5. this is our first year by the way, as in, the school’s just turned IBDP
Hi again. What are you submitting that needs to be in by a deadline? I probably don’t know the answer and you’d probably be better off asking this question on the Online Curriculum Centre. If you haven’t found out the answer to your question yet let me know and I’ll try to find out for you
I accidentally found your blog and what a find! I love it. I take over as CAS coordinator next year and all this is so so useful. Many thanks.
Hi there. Thank you so much for your kind words. I truly appreciate them. You made my day
Hi there,
If I understand correctly we no-longer need to submit the PCF, instead we update the info on the IBIS site. Unless I have I misunderstood something?
Thanks
Michelle
Good question. You are correct. In fact, I think I’ll add a post about the IBIS since it is new. Not only do you submit your CAS info online through the IBIS now but you also have an additional month to submit it. Pretty sweet
I am the CAS Counselor at San Clemente High School in California. I would like to use a revised version of some of your documents. Do I have permission if I note the origin of these materials?
Heck yes! Thanx for asking. You are free to take, use, edit, and revise any of these documents as you see fit. You don’t even need to note the origin of them (but that would be kinda cool
). Hope they help you out. Have a great year!