Week 1 · Theme 1 Role of ICT in Our Lives, Lesson 1 Explorer in Action · 3 lessons
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Mentor someone: my plan
ICT P5 Term 1, Theme 1: pp. 8–13
GoalSay what mentoring is and write a plan to teach a younger child something I know well.
New words
mentor · a person who advises and trains someone who knows lessmentoring · helping someone learn what you already knowplan · a list of steps you decide before you startshare · to give others your information so they can use it too
Explanation
You already know things that others do not. Maybe you can tie your shoes fast, draw a map, or play a game well. When you teach it to a younger child, you are a mentor. Mentoring helps the younger child, and it helps you too, because explaining makes your own knowledge stronger. A good mentor makes a small plan first. Who will I teach? What will I teach? How will we meet: face to face, or in a video meeting with a teacher or family member nearby? When? Keep the lesson short, use simple words, and let the learner try. We share information because it grows when it is shared: one idea told to three friends is soon known by many.
Plan question
Example answer
Who?
my cousin, 7 years old
What?
how to make a paper boat
How will we meet?
face to face at home, with an adult near
When?
Friday afternoon, 15 minutes
Worked examples
Seif is good at drawing a cat in five steps. His small cousin wants to learn. Seif plans: five steps, one paper each, and 15 minutes. Seif is the mentor.
Habiba plans to teach her grandmother how to find a number in a phone book on a tablet. She first writes the steps in order, then teaches slowly, one step at a time.
Karim teaches a classmate to use a ruler to measure a line. He asks the classmate to try. When the classmate makes a mistake, Karim says kindly, ‘Look again at where zero is.’
Class activity
My mentoring plan. On paper, copy the four plan questions (who, what, how will we meet, when). Fill them in for something you know well and a younger child you know. Write the steps you will teach, at most five, and one question you will ask at the end to see if the child understood. Show your plan to a teacher or a family member before you use it.
Practice
1
What is a mentor?
A person who advises and trains someone who knows less.
2
Why does mentoring help the mentor too?
Explaining makes your own knowledge stronger.
3
Name the four questions of a mentoring plan.
Who? What? How will we meet? When?
4
Which is better for a first lesson with a younger child: one long hour or a short fifteen-minute lesson with a try? Why?
The short lesson with a try, because small children get tired and learn by doing.
