PBS Parents PBS parents is a website that informs parents about their child's developmental in all academic areas. It also shows multiple strategies and activities that you can do with your child at home. This website is engaging and educational for children and is trustworthy for parents. This website also has videos that will help parents understand the math concepts their child id learning in the classroom. This will help the parents better understand what their child is learning so they can help their child with homework and other assignments. This website is free and is a great references for parents. However, this website doesn't yet offer their resources in different languages.
Go Noodle This is a website designed to get students actively moving during their learning. There are multiple videos on multiple skills (academic and social) that incorporate movement into their learning. It is easy for parents and teachers to implement these videos with their student(s). However, in order to access these movement videos, there must be access to a computer or tablet and internet.
Scholastic Printables This is a completely free website for parents (and others) to access extra practice printables to work on with their student. There are math printables for parents to print for their student depending on the math skills they are working on. There is a variety of math level and skills available for all grade levels. However, parents or others, must have access to a device, internet, and a printer.
Khan Academy This a website that can be accessed by teachers, parents, and learners. This is a free resource that offers practice exercises, lessons, instructional videos, and more in particular content areas. This website gives teachers access to lessons as it relates to the what you are teaching in the classroom. I think the main con of this website is that it doesn't specifically relate to the common core state standards.
Order of Operations (PEMDAS) This is a strategy that I remember learning in fourth or fifth grade and have referenced it in every grade level since. This poster explicitly states the order of operations and two different ways to remember the order, PEMDAS and Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. This is an engaging and memorable strategy that students will use with a variety of mathematical skills.
Math Drills App This app specifically allows students to practice their fluency with basic math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and addition. This app cost $4.99 and is available for up to 50 students. The students are also able to track their own progress and it will great a progress monitoring chart of each student participating. This ap is great if the school has tablets accessible to all students in the school.
Resources for Paraprofessionals
Bellow is an example of a Paraprofessional plan for teaching rote counting. This plan includes the setting, time, and materials for instruction, and a basic lesson plan for teaching rote counting.
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Teachers Pay Teachers This is a website give all types of teachers and parents, of all grade level, lessons and other resources they can use in the classroom. Teachers and parents can join and sell their lessons and units, or they can simply view, buy, and download other teachers lessons, activities, and units. What I like about this website is there are activities and lessons that fit the instructional needs to students with disabilities. Paraeducators would be able to access lessons and activities to fit the instructional needs of the student they are working with. It is easy to download and implement with all students. Lessons and activities can also relate to the General Education teacher's lesson. A disadvantage to this website is that some lessons may not connect with the common core state standard for the specific grade you are looking for.
CPI CPI is a recourse that discuss different strategies paraprofessional can use while working with students in the classroom. Shown below is an article that gives 10 behavior management strategies for educational assistants and paraprofessionals. This website also has multiple articles written by paraprofessionals and other assistant teachers about strategies that have worked and others that haven't. A con to this recourse is that it is a blog page, which means it may or may not be the most current research.