Leading a CAS Community

Running a local CAS Community has been described as "low maintenance, high impact". It takes, at most, a few hours each month to organise a CAS meeting, but all – including the organiser – leave these meetings motivated to try something new in their classroom.

Benefits of leading a CAS Community

• Development of own understanding and practice in supporting collaborative professional development within and beyond school
• Raising profile in own school and local community of schools
• Opportunity to shape development of the subject through CAS and the NCCE
• Access to new resources provided centrally and through the CAS community, supported by training in these resources and pedagogies
• Develop new skills through provision of CPD opportunities for other teachers and sharing their own expertise
• Training in using classroom resources for teaching computing
• Public liability insurance through BCS for all CAS activity
• Discuss and share with other CAS Community leaders on Community leader's forum

In addition, all local CAS Community Leaders from November 2018 will receive :

• Training in running a local community of practice
• Training in use of admin systems and developing communities of practice
• Resources for the classroom and community meetings
• Welcome pack
• Regional meetups
• A Community Leader guidance pack
• The support of a community outreach manager