Extended Essay: RRS & Supervisor Reflection Planner | No Prep Student Activities

Extended Essay: RRS & Supervisor Reflection Planner | No Prep Student Activities

Help students prepare meaningfully for their Extended Essay reflection sessions with this ready-to-use RRS & Supervisor Reflection Planner. This resource guides students beyond simply describing what happened during the research process and helps them identify meaningful decisions, challenges, changes in thinking, and evidence of their growth as researchers and learners.
Students examine their Researcher’s Reflection Space (RRS), select meaningful evidence from their research journey, practice moving from description to analysis and evaluation, and prepare ideas they can discuss during their reflection sessions with their supervisor. The lesson emphasizes ongoing reflection rather than trying to reconstruct the entire research journey at the end.

What’s Included
- Overview explaining the RRS, RPF, three reflection sessions, viva voce, and the importance of evidence-based reflection
- Mini Research Questions for building background understanding
- 5-Step Group Activity: RRS & Supervisor Reflection Planner
- Digging Into Your Research Journey student activity
- Finding Evidence of Growth student activity
- From Description to Reflection student activity
- Planning opportunities focused on research decisions, challenges, changes in thinking, and growth
- Online Resources for additional research and support
- Student planning and reflection pages
- Color and black-and-white student pages
- Teacher-ready materials designed for easy classroom use

Students Will
Students will review their existing RRS entries, identify important moments in their Extended Essay process, examine how their thinking and research approach have developed, distinguish description from deeper reflection, analyze evidence of their growth, consider skills that may transfer to other contexts, and prepare meaningful material for conversations with their supervisor.

Great For
Extended Essay preparation, supervisor meeting preparation, reflection-session workshops, research-skills instruction, independent work, small-group activities, EE support classes, and viva voce preparation.

No Prep: Print the pages you need or provide them digitally and students can begin working through the research and planning process.

Please Note: This is an independently created educational resource. It is not an official International Baccalaureate (IB) resource and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to the International Baccalaureate Organization.