Asking for Help

Personal & Social DevelopmentFriendship & CooperationAges 5–7

Ask for help when they need it — from a friend, teacher, or family member — and understand that asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness

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Ask an appropriate person for specific help.

Activity

Ask the learner to explain one prerequisite idea before starting. If uncertain, revisit it; graph order is not learner readiness.

Policy

Check readiness rather than assuming source graph order establishes attainment.

Instructions

Use role cards. No real messages or contact details.

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Use the supplied stage cards on screen or scrap paper; adult key stays separate.

Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.

What this lesson covers and its limits

These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.

partial: Ask for help when they need it — from a friend, teacher, or family member — and understand that asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness
Bounded objective: Ask an appropriate person for specific help. Role-play is not evidence of spontaneous help-seeking in life.
partial: Approach an appropriate person and ask for help clearly
Specific help request rehearsed, not spontaneous behaviour.
partial: Identify who to go to for different kinds of help (academic, emotional, practical)
Multiple appropriate helpers matched to academic/emotional/practical situations.
partial: Explain why asking for help is sensible rather than something to be embarrassed about
Missing-information scenario makes help sensible; attitude not inferred as trait.
partial: If {{name}} is stuck on something at school or feeling worried about something, will they ask a teacher or friend for help rather than struggling in silence?
Try offers new-scenario-role-play for the bounded objective; it does not establish every part of the source assessment. Role-play is not evidence of spontaneous help-seeking in life.

Role-play is not evidence of spontaneous help-seeking in life.

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Approach an appropriate person and ask for help clearly
Identify who to go to for different kinds of help (academic, emotional, practical)
Explain why asking for help is sensible rather than something to be embarrassed about

“If your child is stuck on something at school or feeling worried about something, will they ask a teacher or friend for help rather than struggling in silence?”

Curriculum record

Type: Procedural
Subject: Personal & Social Development
Domain: Friendship & Cooperation
Age range: Ages 5–7

Standards

ib-pyp-pspe:PSPE.INT.P1.LO.7