Pros And Cons Of The Guiding Documents

Guiding Documents The Guiding Documents are a set of guidelines and state standards in which educators obtain information what a child needs to know at a specific age. These standards are tools for educators to base their lesson on, but they are not restricted to follow line by line but to use them as guidance depending on the child development needs. Moreover, educators should not base their lesson plan directly from the standards but only use them as a resource to overview where a child needs to be in their developmental stage. They should not base their lesson directly because all children learn differently and at a different phase, meanwhile they cannot expect all children to be, or learn the same concept at the same time. The Guiding Documents state that “the foundations are meant to describe what is typically expected to be observed from young children in everyday contexts,” meaning that as an educator should know that the foundations are building blocks in which they can use to …show more content…
Written by Great School Staff site (2015, para. 2), states that standards are “without standards, districts and schools do not have goals to shoot for” yet in the same article it expressed the cons of basing lesson on the foundations which it “will not take into account the cultural and diversity of the country” (2015, para. 9). The same is within a group of children in a classroom each one comes from a different background, with different needs and abilities and if educators teach in the same way to all children some of the children will fail to succeed in meeting their development growth in all domains. Each child is different; meanwhile the educator needs to focus in their needs individually as she plans her lesson by using the guidance of the foundations but not abiding strictly to them. The educator may adapt the foundation to the daily routine as for all children will understand rather than to implementing them as a sit down