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Kate Fehrenbach

I think the role of state standards in early childhood education is to specify what children should be achieving in all areas of their development (academic, social, emotional, physical, creative, and intellectual). State standards give teachers an idea of what children should be able to do at each level. Standards for quality of care are more important at this level because the early care children receive influence all aspects of their development and determine how successful they will be later on.

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Upon reviewing the standards for each state and the NAEYC’s position statement, I would say that the role of state standards is to give educators an understanding of what the child can and should be able to do at this level in their development. These standards are even more important at this level because children are growing so rapidly and reaching new levels of social, intellectual, emotional, academic, and creative development every day, therefore while it is impossible to keep track of where each student is exactly, the standards are there to provide a general sense of what should be expected.