Teacher Resources That Can Help Parents with Homework

Teacher Resources That Can Help Parents with Homework

Teachers love Pinterest almost as much as party planners. It’s quickly becoming the most popular way for them to trade lesson ideas and resources.

We recently ran a series highlighting ways that parents can help their children with homework in the four major subject areas. What was missing was a simple idea: parents can use some of the same resources to help with homework that teachers use to instruct the students in the first place. There’s no law that says you can’t mine teaching websites for help.

Success in homework might require a quick reteaching of the subject matter, so thinking like a teacher in this regard can save a lot of stress. It might also be a fun activity for both of you to engage. Who knows? You might learn something yourself.

To be honest, the resources available for teachers online are much more plentiful than those made available for parents. So let’s look at some of them.

The teacher organizations

Each of the subject areas has an organization whose job it is to help teachers become more effective. They make a variety of resources available to members and visitors alike, usually split up by grade level. Poke around and you’ll find plenty of valuable help. They are:

Pinterest

Teachers love Pinterest almost as much as party planners. It’s quickly becoming the most popular way for them to trade lesson ideas and resources. But no one ever said you couldn’t go there as well.

Every subject area tends to have well-regarded master teachers whose boards are treasure troves of information. Simply keep clicking the pins until they start leading to the same place, then bookmark that board and keep checking in.

Company websites

As a form of outreach, the companies who wish to do business with schools and teachers often litter their websites with lesson plans and other goodies that help teachers better use their products.

Take a look at whoever printed the textbook in question, then visit their website. Chances are they have a page devoted specifically to that book that is full of supplemental materials, including videos and graphic organizers.

Key search terms

Changing a research trip on Google from a generalized overview of the topic into a focused, teacher-appropriate study is as simple as adding a few phrases:

  • “Lesson plan” leads to websites that usually have far more than just lesson plans
  • Same goes with “teacher resources” or “quizzes”
  • “Student activities”
  • “.pdf” will get you hard information. It eliminates a lot of blogs and heresay material

 

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