Interviews

You are required to have 3 formal recorded interviews with your advisor. The interviews provide evidence of completing your CAS experiences and the learning outcomes.

Interviews will be:

At the end of 1st semester Junior year (November/December 2015)
At the end of Junior year (April/May 2016)
At the end of the CAS programme (April 2017)

*If a student is behind on their CAS hours at the start of Senior year, they will be required to complete an additional CAS interview with their advisor during the beginning of Senior year.

Inteview Questions

Some of the interview questions you advisor will ask you:

Interview #1 - After reviewing your CAS plan and questionnaire you advisor will ask the following:

Do you have any questions or concerns about CAS?
What is your plan for Creativity?
- Keep in mind that Creativity now requires a product or performance
What is your plan for Activity?
- Keep in mind that Activity must have a goal or extension if it is not new
What is your plan for Service?
- Keep in mind that Service must fulfill an authentic need
For each strand, what are you hoping to learn or do you have skills you want to develop?
What ideas do you have for a CAS project? Are these ideas worth developing for a month or more?What additional ideas do you have or backup plans if this is not viable?
- Keep in mind the project must be a series of experiences lasting over a month, with a documented purpose and goal, be collaborative, and make explicit use of the CAS Project Planning Form
Who will you work with for your CAS project?
How can you advance your skills and talents through CAS?
How will you plan for an equal distribution of CAS strands across your CAS experiences?
What organizational and time-management strategies do you have in place to ensure that CAS remains an ongoing focus of your IB journey?
What issues of local significance concern you most? How could you address these in your CAS programme?
How do these local issues also have global significance?
From the plans you already have, do you see any opportunities that may be helpful in meeting the learning outcomes?
What learning outcome appears as something you will easily do?
What learning outcome might present a significant challenge?
What learning outcome might you address in the first six months of your CAS programme?
Have you thought of what type of evidence you will keep?
Which aspect of the programme excites you the most? Which aspect seems most challenging?
What do you most hope to achieve from CAS?
How do you think your CAS programme will enable you to grow? How do these areas of growth apply to the attributes of the IB learner profile?

Interview #2

What has been most enjoyable and beneficial for you thus far in CAS?
What has been a highlight of creativity? Activity? Service?
When have you investigated, prepared and taken action so far in creativity, activity and/or service, or with your CAS project?
What have you developed for your CAS project—your goals, who are you collaborating with, whether the project involves creativity, activity and/or service, your roles and responsibilities, and your progress to date?
What have been the biggest challenges for your CAS involvement, and how have you overcome them?
What difficulty has been hardest to overcome? Where might you need support at this time?
Have you ensured an equal balance across the three CAS strands? If not, how will you rectify this?

What have you learned from your involvement in CAS?
How have you used reflection to gain insights or understandings?
Do your reflections include the four elements—what happened, how you feel, ideas and questions?
Does your collected CAS evidence show ongoing CAS involvement? Are there ways in which this could improve?
In what ways have your CAS experiences, including your project, assisted you in achieving one or more learning outcome?

Interview #3

What did you most enjoy about CAS?
Did you manage to reach your goals?
What was your greatest challenge in CAS? How did you overcome this?
What have you achieved through CAS?
Looking ahead, have any new goals emanated from your CAS programme?
How did you integrate the three CAS strands in your overall programme?
Describe your CAS project: how you planned, who collaborated, your roles and responsibilities and the results of your collaboration. How were your expectations met or exceeded?
How did you improve and develop your planning skills?
What did you learn about yourself and others?
What have you learned through working in collaboration with others?
What abilities and skills did you develop most significantly in CAS?
Did CAS help you to consider issues of global importance? How?
Which learning outcome did you find most easy to achieve? Most difficult to achieve?
What qualities did you discover and develop? What areas for growth were evident?
What challenges did you face, and how did you overcome them?