Rich questions

[Froglet]

Does anyone know what they are and how to develop them?

 

My HT and I were talking about some problems I have in my class and he had just said "come and talk to me about any problems". I replied with "but you want solutions not problems!" It was something he often used to say in terms of getting our children to be a little more independent in their thinking - i.e. asking for a pencil not just sitting there doing no work because you didn't have one! Hence me teasing him.

 

He then mentioned 'rich questions' as something he'd had to learn about when he was doing his NPQH. He has told me before but I can't remember the details. I think it is to do with how the process of developing a detailed and tightly worded question can help you see what approaches you can take to solve the problem. I've tried googling but I get lots of 'questions' or 'questions about rich people' type answers and can't figure out how to get to what I want.

 

I'm just intrigued and want to find out more!

[Mouseketeer]

http://ldatschool.ca/classroom/executive-function/asking-rich-questions/

 

This might help, I googled - asking "rich questions"

[Froglet]

Thank you, that's a help.