A Glossary of cas terms

CAS Coordinator - the person(s) who is given overall responsibility for establishing and overseeing the school’s CAS program

Experience - a specific event in which the student is involved with one or more of the three CAS strands. A CAS experience can be a single event or may be an extended series of events.

Global - having a significance or reference that extends beyond a local context or relates to the whole world. CAS students are encouraged to see the connections between their local experiences and a global context.

Learning outcomes - Learning outcomes specify what a CAS student is able to do at some point during his or her CAS program. Through meaningful and purposeful CAS experiences, students develop the necessary skills, attributes and understandings to achieve the seven CAS learning outcomes.

Portfolio - A collection of evidence of involvement in CAS experiences and reflections upon them that show the learning outcomes have been achieved. At SJII we use ManageBac as our portfolio.

Project - All CAS students undertake a CAS project involving teamwork that integrates one or more of the strands of creativity, activity and service. Duration is a minimum of one month. The project provides opportunities to develop and advance skills particularly related to collaboration and sustained relationships, and enables students to develop and refine plans in response to any problems that arise, and to reflect on their progress and outcomes.

Reflection - a process of exploration of personal thoughts and feelings that informs students’ learning and growth by allowing students to explore ideas, skills, strengths, limitations and areas for further development and consider how they may use prior learning in new contexts.

Strands - In CAS, there are three strands for experiences: creativity, activity and service.

Tutor/Advisor - the teachers who provides ongoing support and advice to individual or groups of CAS students in relation to their CAS program.