Introduction

My name is Jacquel Wilbur. I feel like I have been going to school forever. When I was younger I never wanted to become a teacher. As I have gotten older, I realized I loved helping people, children, I like helping people better themselves. I care about people on a deep level. So when I got married, and knew I needed to get my stuff together and finish my education, that I needed to figure out what I wanted to do for the rest of my life... And that is pretty intimidating, I mean it is for the "rest of your life" they say. I started thinking about being a teacher. I knew from the very start that teaching is HARD work. My mother is a teacher and my mother in law is also a teacher. I knew I wanted to be in a career involving children, I love kids and couldn't emagine working a job with just adults, I have tried that before. Can you say BORING! I decided to be a teacher, I was so excited to get back into school, I knew what direction I was going, but boy is going back to school hard work. I took a handful of classes at a time. I then had a baby, and the next semester took all online classes. Which was so helpful and I really enjoyed it, and how awesome was it that I could still continue my education, while figuring out how to be a new mom. THANKS UVU! So here I am, in the program, starting something new. It's all exciting, scary, and I am just so happy to finally be here. The Professors here at UVU have already shown us how much they care about us, and our education. Right now I want to teach the younger grades: mostly 1st or 2nd. I am excited that we get to have field experience and that we will get to experience different grades as well. Because who knows, maybe I will enjoy the older grades more than I think. My end goal is to be a resource teacher in the elementary school. I did some volunteer hours for my exceptional students class a few semesters ago. And I totally fell in love! I already loved working with special needs students as I use to work at a special needs elementary school. I love that it is important to keep those who can function in a regular class, in a regular class. That is why I think resource is so amazing! 

 My goals for this class, really are to just get 3's on EVERYTHING! I love that we can re-do assignments to get our desired grade. I am excited to learn about more apps, and programs that I will be able to incorporate into my classroom. There are so many fun things you can do with technology. 

Here is my adorable son (he is a year and a half) And my AMAZING rockstar of a husband!