DP Category 2 – Extended Essay

RECOMMENDED FOR:
Educators who have had an association with the EE for at
least one Diploma Programme (DP) exam session.
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 supervisorstudent 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