ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Student responsibilities
The role of the Advisor
You will be assigned to a specific advisor, your advisor will be one of the members of the DP teaching staff . You will maintain the same supervisor throughout the two years in the Diploma Programme if possible. The most essential responsibility of the CAS advisor is to liaise with you to ensure that your CAS programme is continuous and meaningful through the two years of the Diploma Programme.
More specifically, the advisor will:
The role of the CAS coordinatorThe CAS coordinator will:
The role of the Supervisor
The supervisor will assist you, offers guidance and will oversee the CAS experience when needed. For each experience you needs to select an appropriate supervisor who will be able to oversee your progress. A supervisor must be an adult, who is not a family member or personal friend and should, where possible be, 'expert' in the experiences your selected experience. You should request permission of the supervisor before you start your experience and explain them clearly what the role involves using the information letter for supervisors. This letter includes an agreement form which the supervisor should sign, you will need to ensure to include this in your portfolio.
If you genuinely cannot find a supervisor for an experience they can ask the CAS advisor or coordinator to be your supervisor.
More specifically, the supervisor will:
- Approach your CAS programme with a proactive attitude, ensuring that you develop a clear understanding of the purpose and expectations of the programme.
- Develop an individual and meaningful CAS programme, which will span the duration of your Diploma programme.
- Ensure a suitable balance between the different CAS strands; Creativity, activity and service, in your individual CAS programme. You should understand and apply the CAS stages where appropriate.
- Determine personal goals, explore your personal values, attitudes and attributes with reference to the IB learner profile
- Discuss your plans for CAS experiences with the CAS coordinator and CAS advisors, in both formal and informal meetings.
- Take part in a variety of experiences, some of which are self-initiated, and at least one CAS project.
- Maintain a CAS portfolio in Managebac and keep records of CAS experiences
- Record sufficient evidence of the achievement of the seven learning outcomes in Managebac; ensure that each learning outcome is met at least ones throughout your CAS programme.
- Understand the reflection process and identify suitable opportunities to reflect on CAS experiences.
- Behave appropriately and ethically in your choices and behaviors.
- Identify links between the DP core subjects / DP subjects and CAS
- Find appropriate supervisors for all CAS experiences
The role of the Advisor
You will be assigned to a specific advisor, your advisor will be one of the members of the DP teaching staff . You will maintain the same supervisor throughout the two years in the Diploma Programme if possible. The most essential responsibility of the CAS advisor is to liaise with you to ensure that your CAS programme is continuous and meaningful through the two years of the Diploma Programme.
More specifically, the advisor will:
- Discuss goals, progress and achievements in regular meetings
- Ensure that the your son/daughters experience meets the CAS requirements.
- Monitor the range, frequency and balance of experiences undertaken.
- Encourage your son/daughter to make connections between CAS, the subjects, the local community in the context of global concerns.
- Give approval for proposals, update progress indicators, complete experiences and write feedback in ManageBac.
- Monitor risk-assessment for out-school experiences/project.
- Monitor overall progress of the CAS portfolios.
- Relay concerns to the CAS Coordinator.
- Liaise with supervisors as necessary
- Ensure that the CAS status is reflected in the interim and term reports, and will write report comments for the final DP1 report.
The role of the CAS coordinatorThe CAS coordinator will:
- Familiarize you, your parents, CAS advisors and the wider community with CAS
- Promote the importance of CAS
- Provide CAS lesson hours, once a week in which she will educate you about:
- All aspects of the CAS programme
- Meaning and purpose of the CAS learning outcomes
- Reflection
- Meet with you in three formal documented interviews
- Report on progress to your parents
- Promote and publicize your achievements in CAS
- Provide professional development and supervise CAS advisors where appropriate
- Inform and work with CAS supervisors where appropriate
- Report completion/non-completion of CAS to the IB
- Periodically review your CAS portfolios
The role of the Supervisor
The supervisor will assist you, offers guidance and will oversee the CAS experience when needed. For each experience you needs to select an appropriate supervisor who will be able to oversee your progress. A supervisor must be an adult, who is not a family member or personal friend and should, where possible be, 'expert' in the experiences your selected experience. You should request permission of the supervisor before you start your experience and explain them clearly what the role involves using the information letter for supervisors. This letter includes an agreement form which the supervisor should sign, you will need to ensure to include this in your portfolio.
If you genuinely cannot find a supervisor for an experience they can ask the CAS advisor or coordinator to be your supervisor.
More specifically, the supervisor will:
- Give you feedback on your progress during the experience
- Provide a comment on your engagement with the CAS experience through the supervisor review form