CAS PROJECT

"We retain: 10% of what we hear, 15% of what we see, 20% of what we see and hear, 80% of what we actively experience and 90% of what we teach others."
                                                                                                              Gary Phillips

Hence the importance of project-based work that entails experiential learning. A project is also an educational action for “learning to live together”.

The aims of learning to be and to live together are:
 · To develop positive social attitudes
 · To strengthen resilience
 · Citizenship education
 · Openness to and celebration of diversity as humanity’s richness
· Deep respect for the equal human dignity of all people
 · Otherness: perceiving and relating to others as “alter-ego” (other self).
 · Active tolerance: viewing others as valid partners. Wanting to get along with others because it is interesting and is worthwhile. 

Learning to do: 
o Working as a team o Communicating effectively 
o To developing personal initiative
 o Adopting responsibilities
 o Organisational and management skills 

Completing a project involves:
 Investigation,preparation, action , reflection and demonstration

A CAS Project is a collaborative, well-considered series of sequential CAS experiences, engaging students in one or more of the CAS strands of Creativity, Activity, and Service. CAS Students must be involved in at least one CAS Project during their CAS programme.

 The primary purpose of the CAS Project is to ensure participation in sustained collaboration. Through this level of engagement students may discover the benefits of teamwork and of achievements realised through an exchange of ideas and abilities. A CAS Project challenges students to show initiative, demonstrate perseverance, and develop skills such as those of cooperation, problem solving and decision making.

A CAS Project involves collaboration between a group of students or with members of the wider community. Students work as part of a team, with all members being contributors. A CAS Project offers students the opportunity to be responsible for, or to initiate, a part of or the entire CAS Project. Working collaboratively also provides opportunities for individual students to enhance and integrate their personal interests, skills and talents into the CAS Projects planning and implementation. (CAS Guide, 2015 p32)