Personal Concerns and Next Step

So far the class is really interesting to me, and I have learned quite a bit about how math is taught and how it should be, but I do not feel as though some things are gone into depth as much as I like. I know that letting the students explore how they think and what their methods are are important, but at the same time I need to worry about the standards. I feel it is a bit over whelming knowing that there is a new style of teaching, but the standards have stayed the same. Knowing the standards is not going to make students better learners, or even meeting them. However, I think that teaching is about the students and what they can do and pushing them to a new level of learning. The standards are important, but as far as students with disabilities are concerned how do they fit in the learning process?
I think that the standards are important, but implementing them in a way that makes learning fun and meaningful for the students is the challenge and I would love to learn more about different ways to do this. Students should be the center of our teaching process and fitting the standards into that process sometimes seems to be a challenge because they are so unclear.