Good teachers have standards in mind when they plan and present instruction.
Standards represent a specific idea of what the teacher expects a student to recall, replicate, manipulate, understand, or demonstrate and of how the teacher will know if a student has met those standards. Standards are conceptually nothing new, but they did receive a new emphasis over the last decade, through various federal and state initiatives. The growth of the Internet has given us the opportunity to index the sources of information about standards in one place. The links below provide useful information about state and national curriculum standards. The download and installation of Acrobat Reader is a one time installation.