Download LESSON PLAN – Who`s There To Help

LESSON PLAN – Who’s There To Help?
Theme – Using Help and Support
CAREER SKILLS – Career Management
KEY SKILLS – Communication, Problem Solving, Working With Others, Improving Own Learning and
performance
WORK RELATED LEARNING – Learning For Work
COMPETENCIES – *aii, *aiv, *bi, *ci, *cii, *di, **ei, **eii, **eiii, **eiv, **evi, ***fiii, ***fiv, ***kiv,
****li, ****mi
SUGGESTED SUBJECT AREA – English, Personal Development
Learning Outcomes
By completing this task students will be able to:
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Identify and state sources of help available.
Identify skills to be developed.
Clarify who can give specific support to develop the skills identified.
Preparation and Materials
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Copies of the Activity Sheet “Who’s There To Help?” for each student.
Blackboard/flipchart.
Flipchart or similar paper, pens and blu-tak for the groups.
Teachers’ Notes as a prompt for discussion and activity.
Optional link to lesson plan “My Action Plan”.
Method
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Put the students into groups of 4 to 6 and nominate a scribe for each group.
Give out a sheet of flipchart or similar paper and a pen to each group.
Explain the aims of the lesson using the learning outcomes on the Activity Sheet.
Refer to the Teachers’ Notes to introduce the first activity – groups brainstorm in their groups.
Lead the feedback from the group brainstorm, group by group. Encourage the class members to
provide more ideas for different sources of help if they can think of them.
6. Give out the Activity Sheet.
7. Ask the students to work individually completing the Activity Sheet.
8. Encourage students to share their ideas with their group when they have finished.
9. Lead a class discussion about this activity and list all the sources of help which the students were able
to list individually, in one long list on the blackboard/flipchart.
10. Ask the students what they have learned from the lesson.
11. Summarise the main learning outcomes.
TEACHERS’ NOTES – Who’s There To Help
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Stress the importance of the individual efforts required to develop skills and personal qualities and to
acquire knowledge so as to achieve personal and career goals. Some people can achieve what they
want effortlessly – it comes naturally to them. But most of us have to work hard and be motivated to
succeed in our ambitions and dreams.
Raise awareness of types of help available – no one has to go it alone’ e.g. if a student wanted to
become a good swimmer they could ask for help from their Physical Education Teacher. They could
ask their parents to help. See about getting help from the local swimming baths – perhaps there are
courses or clubs there, buy or borrow a video or book.
I small groups students brainstorm what help there is available and record on flipchart paper as shown
below for 2 or 3 areas of development which the group should decide.
Skill
People
Places
Other
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Get better at
swimming
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PE Teacher
Parents
Lifeguard
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Swimming baths
Holiday hotel pool
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Good goggles
Snorkel and flippers
Video/books
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Learn to act
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English Teacher
Amateur Dramatics
Group
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Arts centre –
courses and
workshops
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Videos/books
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Each group displays their flipchart paper – one member of each group reads through and clarify any
issues with them.
Once each group has presented its findings, class to add any missing resources to what they have come
up with.
Individually students then need to identify a particular skill they want to develop further and then list
the resources available to develop this. An example of this is draw below.
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Skill
People
Places
Other
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Improve
communication
skills – reading
writing, speaking,
listening
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Return to small group and discuss their list.
As a class activity record on the blackboard/flipchart a long list of all resources both human and other
that are there to help.
English Teacher
Form Tutor
Library
Stage/theatre
Classroom (read
aloud)
School assembly
Diary
Telephone
Tape recorder
Learning Outcomes: By completing this task you will be able to:
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Identify and state sources of help available to you.
Identify skills you need to develop.
Clarify who can help you to develop the skills you have identified.
ACTIVITY SHEET – Who’s There To Help?
Write the skills you wish to develop in the boxes under the heading SKILL
and then write beside the skill the people that could help you, the places you
could go to get help, and any other help you think you could get to develop
the skills.
SKILL
PEOPLE
PLACES
OTHER