JENNINGS — Parents and students in Jeff Davis Parish now have a little extra help when it comes to dealing with homework.

The Jeff Davis Parish School Board recently added homework resources to its website, www.jeffersondavis.org.

The resources, available to both parents and students, are accessible from the parent section of the site.

“We want our parents and students to have access and resources available for any kind of help they may need,” said Superintendent Brian Lejeune. “There are a lot of great resources online, and we want to make parents aware of what is available and make it easy to find all in one place.”

The resources include links to video presentations of math problems, along with phone numbers that parents and students can use to get personal help.

Additionally, the Title I Parent Center, at 720 E. Plaquemine St., offers hands-on tools for students and parents.

Videos, books, interactive games, flashcards, laptops and other education aides can be checked out from the center or be delivered to a student’s home or school.

The center also offers parenting workshops and parent liaison services.

The homework resources focus on math, English, science and social studies.

The website offers links to other websites and instructional videos. Many of the videos are available in both Spanish and Vietnamese to help students and parents whose English proficiency is limited.

“They can listen to it in Spanish then English to get the understanding of it,” Lejeune said.

Live homework help is available 2-4 p.m. Sunday-Thursday.

“This will enable the student or parent to talk back and forth through the computer so that they will be able to work through the process and solve an issue,” Lejeune said.

The site also offers online textbooks, free online tutoring and a library resources locator. Information on Common Core is also available.

“The Common Core standards are a different way of getting students to look at things,” Lejeune said. “Our curriculum used to be fact driven. Now that we can find the facts anyplace, we are now taking those facts and figuring out what to do with them and how to use them.”

As a result, the standards for student learning are more rigorous and require higher levels of thinking and application, he said.

A student in third-grade math is now required to master skills that previously were taught in the fifth grade, he said.

“This can cause frustration for students, parents and teachers since we now have to make sure that prerequisite skills have to be taught so our student can understand the new, more rigorous skills they must master in these grades.”

The teachers are aware that students will need additional support, practice and reinforcement to learn the skills, he said.

“We want to make sure our teachers and students understand that it is OK to slow down and make sure they understand it,” he said.(MGNonline)