Five Stages of CAS: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
INVESTIGATION
- Identify your interests skills, talents and areas for personal growth and development.
- Investigate what you want to do and determine the purpose for your experience
- In case of service: Identify what community need you want to address
- Identify a goal
- Select and ask a supervisor
- Complete your proposal
- Start keeping an activity log
PREPARATION
- Clarify roles and responsibilities
- Develop a plan of action
- Identify resources
- Create a timeline
- If necessary acquire skills need to engage in the experience
ACTION
- Implement your plans and collect evidence of the action taken
- Keep an activity log of what is happening
REFLECTION
- You will reflect after each stage of the framework as you can see in the diagram. Reflection needs to be ongoing. Throughout the stages you will keep a process log in your portfolio.
- Your reflections should describe what happened, express feelings, generate ideas, and raise questions.
- After the action phase is finished you will do a self-evaluation reflection in which you evaluate your development in the learning outcomes selected and the achievement of the goal.
DEMONSTRATION
- You will demonstrate your engagement and development in the experience in your CAS portfolio.
- You will make sure that each time when you finish something for stages, you will upload it on your portfolio to show that you are working on it on a regular basis until the experience is completed.
- If you have done 'Creativity', you will have to present your work somehow, this can be in a mini exhibition or performing your music on a special occasion.
- When your experience/project is finished you need to demonstrate your supervisor review on your CAS portfolio.
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