This workshop aims to help EE educators build on and further develop their knowledge and skills related to supervising and supporting students throughout their extended essay experience and enhance the quality of their management of the extended essay process. Working collaboratively with each other and the workshop facilitator, participants will:
- further develop their skills in guiding and supporting EE students, emphasising IB approaches to teaching and approaches to learning
- develop their capacity to help students to actively connect their EE experience with their experiences in the other components of the DP core, TOK and CAS
- enhance their understanding of the nature, purpose and requirements of the EE and the framework that needs to be in place to effectively support students during their entire EE experience
- enhance their capacity to develop a positive supervisor-student relationship, with clearly delineated and mutually understood role boundaries, that helps students to make the most of their EE experience
- explore the possibilities offered by the research pathways open to students, interdisciplinary and subject-focused, and discuss the consequent potential emerging complex decision-making faced by students
- share approaches and techniques for running effective reflection sessions with students, emphasising transfer of skills to other contexts, both present and future
- co-develop practices to manage academic integrity in an era of rapid technological change
- apply the assessment criteria uniformly to extended essays written in a range of subject-focused and interdisciplinary frameworks
- use the EE grade descriptors to inform the grade prediction process
- use examples of assessed student work to build on and improve existing understanding of what a range of essays looks like, using this to inform potential guidance and feedback for students