“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...

Empathy on a holiday? Three steps to show empathy, compassion & respect

June 29, 2015

The IB Learner Profile – “CARING – we show empathy, compassion & respect.” Last Saturday as I sat in the departure terminal of Soekarno-Hatta, waiting for my flight to Singapore I reflected just how busy the airport was on this particular...

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...

Voluntourism

April 29, 2015

Picture a group of CAS students in a fictitious school in Africa. They are discussing a CAS project that will take them into middle America. “I even got on this optional excursion that’s going to let me go into Walmarts, that’s going to actually let me interact with...

changes (1) – the new CAS guide for students graduating after 2017

March 28, 2015

Earlier this month the ‘new’ CAS Guide for students graduating in 2017 and later was released by the IBO. The publication of the new Guide is another chapter in the “evolution” of CAS and a deliberate move by the IBO to integrate the three elements of the core viz....