Final Reflections Help Session

CONSIDERED THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF YOUR ACTIONS

Choose ONE of your SERVICE activities from the past two years. Reflect on how your involvement in the activity relates to the following quote. Title this reflection "the ethical implications of (name of service activity)".

"Doing good is not about doing something, it's about doing the right thing." *

Alternatively, this quote could be modified to:

"Service is not about doing something, it's about doing the right thing." or
"Serving is not about serving in some way, it's about serving in the right way."

Questions to help you:

• Did you do good? What good?
• How do you determine whether you did good or not?
• What does sustainability have to do with it?
• Was your service project sustainable?
• What could you do differently in the future? 
• What is you biggest critique of the service project? 

*This quote is taken from the article "North Korea Won't Be Liberated in a Day" by Mike Deri Smith, published on themorningnews.org. It is in reference to criticisms of the the viral KONY video campaign of 2012. 

For Brent Diploma CAS Students:

Write a final reflection that answers the following question. Which CAS activity/ies has/have helped me to grow the most and how?

  

Understanding Learning Outcomes

Some of the CAS Learning Outcomes need to be dissected a bit to understand how they apply to your CAS activities. I thought I'd start with one of the more difficult ones.

• considered the ethical implications of their actions

What does that mean? And how do you show proof of it in your reflections? 

Considered means that you thought about something critically. You may have questioned yourself and your actions.
Ethical implications means the expression of or meaning behind an ethical decision.
Ethical decisions involve determining right from wrong. They may involve issues of honesty, justice, compassion, integrity, and fairness.

The IB CAS guide states: 

Ethical decisions arise in almost any CAS activity (for example, on the sports field, in musical composition, in relationships with others involved in service activities). Evidence of thinking about ethical issues can be shown in various ways, including journal entries and conversations with CAS advisers.

So as far as how you can show evidence of growth in this area, WRITE about it or TALK to me about the moments in your CAS activities when you are faced with ethical decisions, when you have to judge between right and wrong.
 
Here are some quotes that may help you in your understanding.

• An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do.
• Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity.