To get the most mileage out of the software, you'll want something that can "grow" as he learns. There's a few packages that offer storyboard editing in addition to timeline based editing:
Storyboard Editing: This is where the software displays a series of windows at the bottom of the screen. You then drag and drop your video onto one of these windows to create a scene. Eventually you will build up a series of scenes, which you can then output. You can normally drop transitions between these scenes, and combined with scene detect capture, this is the simplest way of editing.
Timeline Editing: There's simply a long strip at the bottom of the software where you drop video. More advanced, but lets you really play around with effects etc.
I suggest you download the trial for Ulead VideoStudio and let him have a play with that.
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