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IB课程是为全球学生开设从幼儿园到大学预科的课程，为学生提供智力、情感、个人发展、社会技能等方面的教育，使其获得学习、工作以及生存于世的各项能力。IB因其课程的规范和高标准，被众多世界名校认可，被称为“成熟的国际化的素质教育”。

CAS作为IBDP课程学生必修的三大核心之一，可谓是实现IB全人教育的核心路径。CAS如同IB价值观的指明灯，帮助学生发展为独一无二的个体，为学生提供探索个人兴趣，体现个人热情，性格与观点的机会。

那么CAS到底是什么？ IB学生如何在CAS中得到多维度能力，实现成长？让我们来一探究竟吧！

CAS由Creativity（创造）、Activity（行动）和Service（服务）三个词语的首字母组成，多维度鼓励学生加深自我认识，锻炼自决意识，强化协作精神，获得成就感，培养学生成为具有完整公民意识的人。在CAS核心理念引导性，IB学子在学校参与丰富多彩的课外拓展课程及活动，进一步迈向十大全人培养目标。

Creativity（创造）涵盖了激励学生勇于创新和加强表达能力的活动。IB同学们通过参与艺术、音乐、戏剧、舞蹈、辩论、摄影、电影、学习新语言等方式来实现“C”这一方面，如在校内参加第二外语学习，参与爱莎IB的戏剧节、微电影节、爱莎日等等。这些活动一方面同学们能探索和开拓创新性的思维、观点和表达方式，另一方面可以发挥特长和想象力，在已有知识技能的基础上寻求突破和创新。

Activity（行动）包含学生实际参与的身体力行的活动，如开展不同类型的体育运动和团队竞技，参与户外活动。在广州外校爱莎文华IB，同学们积极参与各项运动，如网球、羽毛球、篮球等，并通过组建相关社团，组织球类比赛等方式，形成健康的生活方式，养成良好的生活习惯的同时提高组织协调能力。

Service（服务）鼓励同学们参与以帮助他人为目的的项目或活动，培养社会责任感和关爱社区的意识。IB学子们在CAS核心指导下在为社会、社区做贡献，提升自身的决策能力和解决问题的能力。

CAS能作为IB核心课程的一部分，并不是简单地指向一场活动，而是具备完善的评估体系。例如，同学们需要达到创造、行动、服务三方面的平衡、具备“调研–准备–行动–反思–呈现”过程、项目时长需持续一个月以上、达到7个学习目标等等。

广州外国语学校爱莎文华IBDP课程会在校内给予同学们全方位的指导，一方面开设CAS指导课，帮助同学们基于自身的兴趣与特长进行反思，初步制定CAS目标和计划，另一方面CAS小组导师全程跟进同学们的CAS活动进程，进行全面指导和评估。

除此以外，广州外国语学校爱莎文华IBDP课程还提供广阔平台和丰厚资源帮助同学们开展CAS活动。

首先除了学术课程，IB课程与广州外国语学校共同提供超50门CCA（延伸课堂），包括人文、理科、社科、艺术、体育等各领域的课程供同学们选择促进学生在音乐、体育、艺术、人文、科技等方面的深入探索，点燃同学们内心对大千世界、未知事物、生活和生命的热情，激发同学们对各方面的学习和探究热情，帮助同学们了解自己CAS项目方向。

与此同时，IB课程创建平台给同学们开设了丰富多样的社团，从课内的经济学知识探讨到课外天文知识探究，从日常的篮球运动到剧场内的音乐剧，从简单地聚焦兴趣爱好到关心可持续发展……IB社团可谓包罗万有，IB学子也得以在其中发展特长，提高创造力、自主管理、团队协作的能力、活动组织能力和领导力，更提高培养服务意识和奉献精神，学会如何创造更美好的社区环境。

得益于广州外国语学校及爱莎国际教育集团双品牌优势，广州外国语学校爱莎文华IBDP课程还通过开展微电影节、爱莎慈善月、跨学科周等活动，将CAS融入到同学们的学习生活中。

在广州外国语学校爱莎文华IBDP课程学生和教师的共同努力下，目前部分CAS项目已初见成效，对社区乃至社会发挥着积极作用，并获得各方肯定。

以项目《逃离美丽陷阱：广州高中生的容貌焦虑》为例，IB同学们关注到了在高中学生群体中的“容貌焦虑”现象，用5个月的时间开展 “拒绝容貌焦虑”系列行动，创造正面价值，用切实行动带领社区获得新的认识，成果更荣获青年影响力项目(Youth Impact Communication)奖项——青年影响力奖（Superior Award）！

我们所在的社会也是IB学子CAS项目的一大关注点。高一的欧阳同学为了帮助和疗愈“星星的孩子”，让他们更好地融入社会、适应社会，自发成立了关爱“星星的孩子”协会（爱星会），通过长期的帮助，促进自闭症儿童的交流与融合。IB的同学们更自发组建爱莎文华志愿者团队，关爱和帮助弱势群体与儿童希望广州小家长期合作，为来穗治病的儿童及家人提供温暖的栖身之地，同时提供其它社会公益服务，履行社会责任，关爱社会。爱莎文华志愿者团队获得一致认可，并荣获广州外国语学校2022“优秀志愿者团队”称号！

CAS除了多维度提高同学们的能力，更有效适配未来需要。CAS所侧重培养的，十分契合名校申请所需的核心竞争力，例如哈佛大学官网上的使命提到希望学生“在原有知识的基础上进行创新，注重知识的迁移”及“增强自我认知，利用自身的兴趣和特长更好地服务于社区和社会”。毋庸置疑，CAS的核心要求能让学生在通向世界高等学府前做好充分和优质的准备。

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The IB curriculum offers programmes from kindergarten to pre-university for students around the world, providing students with education in intelligence, emotion, personal development, social skills, etc., so that they can acquire the abilities to study, work and survive in the world. IB is recognized by many world-renowned schools because of its curriculum of high standards and its curriculum is called "mature international quality education".

As one of the three core components that students of IBDP must take, CAS can be described as the core path to realize IB holistic education. CAS is like a guiding light of IB values, helping students develop into unique individuals, providing opportunities for students to explore personal interests and express personal passion, character, and perspective.

So, what exactly is CAS? How can IB students acquire multi-dimensional abilities and realize growth in CAS? Let's find out!

CAS is the abbreviation of Creativity, Activity, Service. It encourages students to deepen their self-knowledge, exercise self-determination awareness, strengthen the spirit of collaboration, and gain a sense of accomplishment, cultivating students to become all-round citizens. Guided by the core concepts of CAS, IB students participate in a variety of extracurricular courses and activities in the school, and further move towards the ten attributes of IB learner profile.

Among them, “creativity” covers activities that motivate students to be creative and strengthen their ability to express themselves. IB students develop their creativity by participating in activities of art, music, drama, dance, debate, photography, film, and learning new languages such as microfilm festival, ISA Festival, learning new languages in school etc. In these activities, on the one hand, students can explore and develop innovative ways of thinking, viewpoints, and expressions; on the other hand, they can use their specialty and imagination to seek breakthroughs and innovations based on their existing knowledge and skills.

“Activity” includes hands-on activities that students participate in, such as playing different types of sports and team competitions and participating in outdoor activities. In GZFLS ISA Wenhua IB Diploma Programme, students actively take part in various sports, such as tennis, badminton, basketball, etc., form sports clubs, and organize sports competitions, which help the students cultivate a healthy lifestyle, develop good living habits, and develop organization and coordination skills at the same time.

“Service” encourages students to participate in projects or activities aimed at helping others and cultivating a sense of social responsibility and caring for the community. Under the guidance of CAS core, IB students are making contributions to society and the community, while cultivating and improving their decision-making ability and problem-solving ability.

As part of the IB core curriculum, CAS does not simply point to an activity, but has a complete evaluation system. For example, students need to achieve a balance among creativity, activity, and service, go through the process of "research-preparation-action-reflection-presentation", have the project last more than one month, and achieve 7 learning goals and other requirements etc.

Teachers of GZFLS ISA Wenhua IB Diploma Programme give students all-round guidance thereon. On the one hand, they provide CAS guidance classes to help students reflect on their own interests and strengths, and initially formulate CAS goals and plans. On the other hand, the CAS group tutors follow up the students' CAS activity progress and provide comprehensive guidance and evaluation throughout the whole process.

In addition, GZFLS ISA Wenhua IB Diploma Programme also provides multiple platforms and rich resources to help students carry out CAS activities.

First, in addition to academic courses, GZFLS ISA Wenhua IB Diploma Programme and Guangzhou Foreign Language School jointly provide more than 50 CCA courses, including courses in humanities, science, social science, art, sports, and other fields for students to choose from to facilitate students’ in-depth exploration in music, sports, art, etc., ignite students' inner passion for the vast world, the unknown things, the living things and life itself, stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning and exploration in various aspects, and help students understand the direction of their CAS projects.

At the same time, the IB Programme has set up a platform for a variety of clubs for students, with the clubs ranging from exploration of in-class economics knowledge to that of extracurricular astronomy knowledge, from daily basketball to musicals in theatre, from simply focusing on hobbies to caring about sustainable development... IB clubs can be described as all-encompassing, and IB students are able to develop their specialties in them, improve creativity, self-management, teamwork skills, event organization skills and leadership, cultivate awareness of service and dedication, and learn how to create a better community environment.

Benefiting from the dual brand advantages of Guangzhou Foreign Language School and ISA International Education Group, GZFLS ISA Wenhua IB Diploma Programme also integrates CAS into the students' learning experience through activities such as the Microfilm Festival, ISA Charity Month, Interdisciplinary Week etc.

Thanks to the joint efforts of students and teachers of GZFLS ISA Wenhua IB Diploma Programme, some CAS projects have achieved initial results, playing a positive role in the community and society, and have been recognized by all parties.

Taking the project "Escape from the Beauty Trap: Appearance Anxiety of Guangzhou High School Students" as an example, IB students noticed the phenomenon of "appearance anxiety" among high school students and spent 5 months carrying out a series of activities of "Rejecting Appearance Anxiety" to create positive values, using practical actions to lead the community to gain new understanding thereof. This project even won the highest award of Youth Impact Communication - the Superior Award!

The society we live in is also a major focus of the CAS projects for IB students. To help and heal the "Children of the Stars", Ouyang, a G10 student, established the Autism Awareness Association to care for them and to promote communication and integration of children with autism through long-term help. IB students also set up the ISA Wenhua Volunteer Team to care for and help disadvantaged groups and children, through its long-term cooperation with Children’s Hope Guangzhou, in providing a warm shelter for children and their families who come to Guangzhou for medical treatment and other social welfare services, fulfilling social responsibilities, and caring for the society. The ISA Wenhua volunteer team was unanimously recognized and won the title of "Excellent Volunteer Team" in Guangzhou Foreign Language School in 2022!

In addition to improving the abilities of students in multiple dimensions, CAS effectively caters to students’ future needs. What CAS focuses on is very much in line with the core competitiveness required for elite school applications. For example, the mission of Harvard University on its official website mentions “students embark on a journey of intellectual transformation” and “students will begin to fashion their lives by gaining a sense of what they want to do with their gifts and talents, assessing their values and interests, and learning how they can best serve the world.” There is no doubt that the core requirements of CAS help students become fully prepared with high-quality for entering the world's higher education institutions.