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**Area of Focus:** First Year Middle School Teacher
Being a first year teacher is overwhelming. Being a first year teacher at the middle school level and having to integrate technology into your teaching strategies can go beyond overwhelming. Any brand new teacher feels nervous, lost at times, and most importantly is often unaware of valuable online resources that can be beneficial to them and their students. We aim to assist that first year middle school teacher by providing them with valuable resources that will support them in their middle school endeavors. While we will not focus on a specific learning management system like Moodle or Blackboard, all of our resources, tips, and tricks will easily transfer into any system that a first year teacher may encounter.

**Members and Area of Focus:**
Each group member will concentrate on a particular subject area. Within each subject area, the focus will be geared towards online learning that will assist in developing particular skills associated with each content area.
 * __Language Arts: Kim__
 * Vocabulary
 * Reading comprehension
 * Writing
 * Research
 * __Math: Stacey__
 * Math basics (multiplication, division, integers, decimals, etc.)
 * Pre-algebra
 * Algebra
 * __Science: Chenitha__
 * Life Science
 * Physical Science
 * Earth Science
 * __Social Studies: Jason__
 * Geography
 * World History
 * Government
 * Economics
 * __Special Education: Sarah__
 * Assistive technologies
 * Universal Design for Learning

**Major Categories of Resources:**
Our group plans on gathering lesson plan links, journal articles discussing best practices, and information pertaining to related professional associations for each subject area that help promote success for the first year teacher.

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