Creativity, Action, Service (CAS)
Creativity, action, and service (CAS) is at the heart of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. CAS enables a student to enhance his or her personal and interpersonal development through experiential learning. At the same time, it provides an important counterbalance to the academic pressures of the rest of the IB Diploma Programme.
A good CAS experience should be both challenging and enjoyable, a personal journey of self-discovery. Each ISI student will experience CAS differently depending on individual choices and goals but for most, a CAS experience is profound and life changing.
- CREATIVITY: Arts, and other experiences that involve creative thinking.
- ACTION: Physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle, complementing academic work elsewhere in the IB Diploma Programme.
- SERVICE: An unpaid and voluntary exchange that has a learning benefit for the student. The rights, dignity and autonomy of all those involved are respected.
AIMS of CAS
Within the IB Diploma Programme, CAS provides an opportunity to develop many of the attributes described in the IB Learner Profile.
The CAS programme aims to develop students who are:
- Reflective thinkers understand their own strengths and limitations, can identify goals, and devise strategies for personal growth.
- Willing to accept new challenges and new roles.
- Awareness of themselves as members of communities with responsibilities towards each other and the environment.
- Active participants in sustained, collaborative projects.
- Balanced---they enjoy and find significance in a range of activities involving intellectual, physical, creative and emotional experiences.