59-05-032 Proceeding

162 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress Since the focus of mentoring is to develop the whole person, the techniques are broad and require wisdom in order to be used appropriately. A study of mentoring techniques most commonly used in business reveals five major “wisdom tactics” mentors usually follow.These are: 1. Accompanying: This means making a commitment in a caring way. Accompanying involves taking part in the learning process by taking the path with the learner. 2. Sowing: Mentors are often confrontedwith the difficulty of preparing the learner before he or she is ready to change. Sowing is necessary when you know that what you say may not be understood or even acceptable to learners at first but will make sense and have value to the mentee when the situation requires it. 3. Catalyzing: When change reaches a critical level of pressure, learning can jump. Here the mentor chooses to plunge the learner right into change, provoking a different way of thinking, a change in identity or a re-ordering of values. 4. Showing: this is making something understandable, or using your own example to demonstrate a skill or activity. You showwhat you are talking about, you show by your own behavior. 5. Harvesting: Here the mentor focuses on “picking the ripe fruit”: it is usually learned to create awareness of what was learned by experience and to draw conclusions. The key questions here are: “What have you learned?” “How useful is it?” Different techniquesmaybeusedbymentors according to the situationand thepsychological mindset of the mentee. It is underlined that the techniques used in modern organizations can be found in ancient education systems, fromthe Socratic technique of harvesting to the accompaniment method of learning used in the apprenticeship of itinerant cathedral builders during the Middle Ages. IV. Methods Sample 2.1 The sample include 120 Englishmajor students of the third year, Faculty of Education, Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University, who study the Independent Studies Subject, from the first semester of 2014 academic year. 2.2 The sample group of primary students at Primary Demonstration School of Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University is divided into 3 groups after each grade. 2.3 The sample group of secondary students at Primary Demonstration School of Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University is divided into 3 groups after each grade.