National and State Technology Standards

1.    According to my opinion the purpose of the National Education Technology Plan is to show what we are lacking in today's educational system. Today's educational system there is a lot of challenges that are affecting all of us as teachers, parents, and students. We are dealing with children from all different kinds of backgrounds different kinds of life some parents value their child’s education and are involved with they’re everyday life’s and stay in connection with their teacher on day to day basis on their learning. While in the other hand we have parents who only send the children to school because they have to and that's the only meal they might have for that day. This will affect us as teachers because we will not have the resources to help those kids and the challenges they have as far as technology.

2.    The assumptions that some administrators, educators and or students may have about the National Education Technology Plan are how will we be able to accomplish it? Will every student have accesses to all the technology and everything they're saying it will be available in order for the entire student to accomplish and learn from? With this being said all administrator, teachers, students and parents must be willing to work together to see the light of the other tunnel.

          The main assumptions for this plan are as follows:

·      Many of the failings of our education system stem from our failure to engage the hearts and minds of students.

·      What students need to learn and what we know about how they learn have changed, and therefore the learning experiences we provide should change.

·      How we assess learning focuses too much on what has been learned after the fact and not enough on improving learning in the moment.

·      We miss a huge opportunity to improve our entire education system when we gather student-learning data in silos and fail to integrate the information and make it broadly available to decision-makers at all levels of our education system—individual educators, schools, districts, states, and the federal government.

3. The NETP presents a model of learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. The 21st. century competency plans of critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration and multimedia communication will provided assistance for the students to achieve by allowing the students to have all these five essentials woven within all the content area making it a lot more easier for the students to score high and achieve goals that are set forth for them.

4. Ohio Educational Technology Program and the National Educational Technology Plan are both align with one another for the purpose of wanting a better education for children and making sure that everyone gets the same education where they’re from rich or poor neighborhood. The main purpose is to close the Achievement Gap. The two are not aligned when it comes to having a set date for all of the OETP to be achieved by. The NETP put all these plans in place but no execution date.

5. Both the Ohio Education Technology program and the National Education Technology Plan have pretty much the same goals, everyone will learn through technology. Where they do not align is that when you give deadline to certain things and you don't have the right people and the right amount of training to educate the students, then datelines will not be met and students will not have the proper education to compete in the global economy. We first have to train the educators and once that is done then we should send them off to educate our children.

6. The challenges that this plan will face are.

·      Not everyone has access to computers.

·      Not everyone is disciplined enough to learn through distance   learning education.

·      Teachers may not have the proper amount of training.

·      Teachers may be overwhelmed with all the amount of training that needs to happen in order for distant learning schooling to happen.

ORC Lesson Plan

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/completing-circle-craft-circular-827.html?tab=4#tabs

This lesson is geared towards grades K-2, however I will be using it for first grade. For this lesson's subject area is reading, in this lesson plan students will choose books and be expected to identify the characteristic of circular structure and they will be excepted to organize their writing by drawing circular plot diagram to write about what the topic is. Students will work together with their classmates during workshop to help one another. Students will revise self evaluate their own work and at the end share it with the class.

Here in the next section will be the common core standards this lesson is designed for. This lesson has five 50 minutes sessions. I will be focusing in teaching the first and the second session where I will be getting the students to find book that will help them understand circular plot stories.

OH.CC.RL.1.		Reading Standards for Literature
		Key Ideas and Details
RL.1.1.		Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.2.		Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
RL.1.3.		Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
		Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RL.1.7.		Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
OH.CC.RF.1.		Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
RF.1.4.		Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4(a)		Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4(c)		Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
OH.CC.W.1.		Writing Standards
		Text Types and Purposes
W.1.3.		Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
		Production and Distribution of Writing
W.1.5.		With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
		Research to Build and Present Knowledge
W.1.7.		Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of ''how-to'' books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions).
OH.CC.SL.1.		Speaking and Listening Standards
		Comprehension and Collaboration
SL.1.2.		Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
OH.CC.L.1.		Language Standards
		Conventions of Standard English
L.1.1.		Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.1.1(c)		Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop).
		Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
L.1.4.		Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
L.1.4(a)		Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
L.1.5.		With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.1.5(c)		Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy)

I would implement this lesson into my classroom during reading and writing block. I will have the students work in small groups and help one another and share with one another as I walk from table to table helping the ones that are struggling a little bit. The only struggle my students will have will be at the beginning understanding what a circular plot story is and how it’s put together. After spending a good 50 minutes on it the first day it will go much smoother.