Paraeducation: Books & films

This book provides practical ideas for defining teacher roles, planning lessons, providing effective instruction, and maximizing the value of each team member. Anne Beninghof shares stories, and real-life co-taught lesson examples that emphasize creative yet time-efficient instructional strategies that lend themselves beautifully to the co-taught classroom. Full text available online.

Today's classrooms embrace students of all abilities, and this book provides information and insights on how to work effectively with children with many disabilities such as attention disorders, math and writing disabilities, emotional disorders and autism spectrum disorders.

Covers big ideas in the mathematics curriculum for older school students, especially those that are hard to learn and hard to teach. These are the ideas that really matter, that students get stuck on, and that can be obstacles to future learning. It shows how students learn, why they sometimes get things wrong, and the strengths and pitfalls of various teaching approaches.

This revised edition of "Pathways to Play". contains activity ideas that encourage play skills, checklists to help identify where children are having problems, specific teaching strategies, and assessment options. Play skills are life skills; as children develop them, they also learn important social skills that they will use throughout their lives. This new edition also examines how play theory translates into practice.

This unique book — based on the author's experience — provides the knowledge and skills to teach math to young children, through learning games with playing cards. Children grow to associate math with fun. The author's innovative approach to teaching math to young children is an ideal and highly productive way for parents and grandparents to spend quality time with their young loved ones. The book will be an immense help for children's progress in math in the kindergarten and school.

In the first years of life, as children observe, imitate, and interact with people and their environment, the brain is structuring a foundation for vocabulary, values, cognitive processes, and social skills. Educators can help influence that development by teaching skills and dispositions. The practical examples in this book show how to introduce the Habits of Mind to children in entertaining and concrete ways. By designing learning experiences that reflect the situations and challenges children face in their lives, educators can help begin to develop the habits of mind that feed a lifetime of learning.