In what ways can I influence and support the implementation of the National Education Technology Plan

The National Education Technology Plan is a lengthy plan, but is layed out very well. This plan addreses the needs of education in the near future. this plan not only identifies the needs but goes a step futher and identifies goals and gives recomendations to accomplish these goals. One area they identified was assesments. There is a need to find ways to meaure what matters, diagnose the strngths and weeknesses in the course of learning when there is still time to improve the student's performances. I see students that have found there way around the present assessment styles and continue to move up in grade levels but have failed to reach the necessary goals for that level. By using different types of assessments when i teach i hope to avoide this problem.

Under the Obama administration, education has become an urgent priority driven by two clear goals set by the President:

• By 2020, we will raise the proportion of college graduates from where it now stands
(39%) so that 60% of our population holds a two-year or four-year degree (National
Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008).
• We will close the achievement gap so that all students – regardless of race, income, or
neighborhood – graduate from high school ready to succeed in college and careers.
The Obama administration is on board with the NETP so this gives us as teachers someone to speak out to so we can achieve the goals that have been set in our classroom. I like to push for new ideas. Going into a new school i hope to bring fresh ideas as well as learn new ideas from the current staff.