Teaching with standards can be both a positive and negative thing for teachers. I think that standards should be taken extremely serious because they are believed to be the necessary topics that children should have knowledge about at that particular time. I think that it is important as a teacher to focus on these things; however, I also believe that it is necessary for teachers to use these standards as starting points in their classroom. I was observing and volunteering in a third grade classroom and noticed that the teacher was so set on staying focused just on the standards that I felt the children were being cheated out of other material. Students need to be shown the entire concept of an idea and not just what someone has decided is necessary. I do; however, think that this might be difficult as a teacher. There are so many topics and ideas that need to be covered throughout the school year in so many different topics. This is why I think that standards are good because it gives a guideline to teachers; however, teachers need to look at these standards and whenever possible it is necessary for them to expand on them or include other topics that are relevant.