Supervising the EE Katie Biela Upper School Dean DP Coordinator

1. Supervising the EEKatie BielaUpper School DeanDP Coordinator

2. Topics to Discuss

3. What about you? • What’s the worst essay mistake you’ve ever made/seen?

4. My favorite essay errors

5. RQ Initial Questioning

6. Initial Questioning • Choose subject area: • Which subject area is of most personal interest to you? Is there something you are especially curious about in one of your IB courses? • Choose a topic of interest: • I want to learn about __________________________. • Suggest a question: • I am studying ______________________ because I want to find out (who, what, when, where, whether, why or how) • Evaluate your question: • I am studying __________________ because I want to find out ____________________________ in order to understand (how, why or whether) • Restate your question using a different command term • Review with student • Reflect

7. Initial questioning Why does this interest you? Why do you care? ~look for their passion Students come to me with 2-3 topics. What do you hope to learn about this topic? ~engage their curiosity

8. Initial questioning Can you google your RQ and get an answer? ~good time to contrast report vs. research Have you “researched” the research? Is there any material from which to draw? Is it academically worthy? ~reiterate appropriate sources Is there a plethora of information? Is the topic over analyzed? ~an abundance of information may not be a ‘bad” thing

9. Questions that narrow

10. Questions that narrow • What do you mean by: • Analyze • Discuss • Explore • Answer • Caused • Affect • Reflect • Etc… • What reflections on death can be found in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte`?

11. Questions that narrow Reflect • What do you mean by_________?

12. Questions that narrow New RQ: • In Emily Bronte`s Wuthering Heights, how do imagery and setting foreshadow Catherine’s untimely death? • Are you trying to: • Establish a pattern • Illustrate authorial intent • Never a good idea • Support device choices • Indicate character similarities

13. Questions that narrow What time period does this include and where? • Consider major events • Most discussed time period • Least discussed time period • Global event • Geographical specifics • Etc… • What part did the Women’s Rights Movement play in Hillary Clinton’s success?

14. Questions that “narrow” Do you mean from 1635/Anne Hutchinson to 2007 Nancy Pelosi??? Do you mean in Chad, Pakistan, the US, The UK Quatar, Latvia etc… New RQ How do the Declaration of Sentiments in1848, the establishment of the first women’s clinic in 1916 and the senatorial election of Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2000 collectively represent New York’s social equality progressivism regarding women’s rights?

15. Structured understanding TWE/How/What/Why does/did • _______________ influence/analyze/explore/cause/reflect/affect/answer (2) __________________ during/in (3) ____________________? subject event/action time/place

16. Structured understanding RQ: Math-How could the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone have been predicted? TWE/How/What/Why does/did • _______________ influence/analyze/explore/cause/reflect/affect/answer (2) __________________ during/in (3) ____________________? Stochastic or deterministic model Ebola outbreak Sierra Leone, 2014 NEW RQ: Math-Which model, stochastic or deterministic, could have most accurately predicted the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone?

17. Questions that ensure focus

18. Ensuring focus • How does the introduction meet the RQ? • How does each section support your research? • Did you answer the RQ in your conclusion?

19. Ensuring focus • How does the introduction meet the RQ? • Question to ask: • Which parts refer to the RQ? • Ask the student to show you exactly where they address the RQ. • Implications are appropriate.

20. Ensuring focus • How does each section support the RQ? • Question to ask: • When I read each paragraph, can I determine how it builds an answer to your RQ? • Ask student to show you exactly where they “set-up” the RQ.

21. Ensuring focus • Did you answer the RQ in your conclusion? • Question to ask: • If I read the conclusion will I recognize the RQ? • Ask student to show you exactly where they answer the RQ.

22. Reflection cont. • EE issues • Picking a topic • Re-writing • Final edits • Approaches to Teaching • Inquiry based learning • Pose questions • Outline problems • Give clear measurable objectives • Help students to connect to the best subject-based resources • Focus the students on: • the answers they are finding • the research skills they are using • What a fantastic opportunity to correlate Approaches to Teaching in the process!

23. Specific Group Requirements • ALL groups must have the RQ in the Introduction (Title page and Conclusion) • Group 1 • 3 Categories • 1: Literary Analysis • 2: Literary Comparison • 3: Rhetorical Evaluation • Group 2 • 3 Categories • Lang analysis-specific text • Impact of social issues on language/cultural artifacts • Literary Analysis

24. Specific Group Requirements • Group 3 • More than 10 years prior • Half of the sources form less than 5 years • Group 4 • Wet Lab/Research based • Outside of school requires a letter of authenticity

25. Specific Group Requirements • Group 5 • Depth of mathematical knowledge • Equation based • Group 6 • Specific Discipline • VA-must illustrate an image on the front page (the only EE that allows this)

26. Layout/Outline Please see webpage

27. RPPF Please see webpage

28. Rubric Please see webpage

29. Recommended resources • www.ibo.org • Naturally  • www.thinkib.net • Lots of free stuff! • www.ibsurvivalguide.com • Know what candidates ask each other • Google Power Search • A self-paced course to help students learn to search for data • IBO Pedagogical EE Support • IBO’s EE resource for students and teachers