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Incorporate academic standards
By actively addressing standards, whether at the state or national level, a teacher sets strong expectations for all students. Standards offer a teacher a detailed guide of the content and learning experiences that he or she should be providing students. How a teacher makes use of a standards-based curriculum is of the highest importance. Essential elements that a teacher must include in a standards-based curriculum and instruction are:
 | classroom discourse
| | presenting mathematics skills in a problem-solving context
| | applying concepts to real-life situations.
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Providing guidance for a teacher, standards indicate when students are developmentally ready to learn a concept, which topics to emphasize, and when students should master
a concept or procedure. Standards are also useful when choosing activities and lessons;
a teacher should alter or replace an activity that, while fun (for both students and the teacher), does not address any of the standards.
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