This can help an individual teacher make sense of how the standards play out across the year. Pedagogy becomes more important as we encourage teachers to shift teaching from standing in front of the chalk board to having teachers work with students individually and in groups, on research projects and performances and team tasks. Today's pedagogy has to show students not just how to learn from the teacher, but how to learn from other students and learn on your own. Pedagogy has become more important as we have learned more about how humans learn. We now know that while some students learn well by having teachers lecture and have students take notes, that others do not.
Some students learn better in groups of two, or by acting things out, or by writing by themselves.
We want students to be able to learn a lot of different ways, and different situations will call for different kinds of learning. Over time we also want students to be able to direct their own learning, to be able to figure out how to learn something new. But when we say all students should learn at high levels, that means we have to get organized better to understand how each student learns best and how to help them learn and take charge of their learning. This includes students who are English language learners, and those who may have some physical or learning disability. Sometimes there are educational programs that are designed to help students learn reading or writing or some kind of math.