CAS (29 total posts)

“We need to harness Youthful Idealism”

August 24, 2015
I still remember the context of this ‘resource’. As I was entering the room for our weekly HS Leadership meeting at JIS (Jakarta Intercultural School), the Departmental Head of HS Science handed me an article from The International Herald Tribune Opinion pages. “Here...

Global Citizenship

August 6, 2015
Global citizenship education is a sociological experiment. Most schools promise to create global citizens or global leaders, but what kind of global citizen do we want to create? It’s a blurred utopian vision. Do we want future citizens who feel a moral...

Your CAS Currency

May 18, 2015
In the newly published CAS Guide (2014) there are 5 stages identified that represent a process and a sequence that can assist you to set up a reliable and flexible structure to frame and build your CAS experiences. In the initial stage called Investigation you are...

voluntary v’s mandatory

March 31, 2015
DP students should question why is CAS, and especially service, compulsory in the DP program. The question and debate about whether a service program should be mandatory or voluntary is, according to Samuel Halperin – the director of the American Youth Policy...

Travel

January 30, 2015
I firmly believe that travel can offer many opportunities for growth in CQ (Cultural Intelligence) and international mindedness. Many schools now offer their students days or weeks off campus wherein there are activities to facilitate experiential learning in CAS,...

Transform Yourself & Others in Service

December 28, 2014
What better way to partner up in a service activity than to share your skills and expertise in a fun and enjoyable activity, not only to help a partner in a real life challenge but also to learn much about yourself? This report from a recent edition of Tennis magazine...