Standards will benefit teachers by providing uniform assessment tools for an established core curriculum. Ideally, teachers will be teaching the same core curriculum in individual schools throughout districts, states, and nation. Standards will provide a uniform set of student expectations at each grade level and within each discipline. Of course, implementation of Standards will need the support of administration at both site and district levels. Standards will ultimately benefit our students.
Students personify our very mobile society by moving from school to school and district to district.
For them, there will be less chance of missing any of the established body of critical knowledge and information which the Standards establish. Assessment will need to be based on a conceptual understanding of a body of knowledge, and there needs to be flexibility with the actual choice of tools and implementation within the classroom. Standards and their implementation could be a very positive addition to our educational and curricular direction within the public schools. The Standards will need to be accepted throughout the states and nation, and include all areas and disciplines of the curriculum. Administration at state, district, and site levels must convince their teachers that the Standards' intent is not to homogenize strategies and assessment tools, but to affix a core body of knowledge which all educators will be held accountable to teach and creatively assess.