Friendly greetings to my fellow MAEL colleagues. My name is Ursula Neuscheler and I am a TWU alumni. \u00a0I graduated from the school of Education in 2015 and earned my BEd degree. I knew after my first semester that I really wanted to pursue my Masters but at the time I was really super passionate about Urban Studies and thought I would take my Masters of Urban Studies with long term hopes of combining my interest in city planning with my interest in politics. \u00a0After giving it a lot of thought and praying about what to do, I ended up deciding to pursue a Masters in Educational leadership instead.<\/p>\n
My short term goal is to become a VP and a long term goal would be to somehow use my experience to bring about policy changes within municipal or provincial government. Maybe a school trustee would be something I would like to pursue some day? \u00a0After 501 I will only have three more MAEL courses to take and once my fourth literature review is complete, this December, I will be busy compiling my thesis. \u00a0It is all going by very quickly.<\/p>\n
Currently, I teach 142 grade 9\/10 students Social Studies, ELL Socials and Career Life Education at a local high school in Langley. \u00a0I love my job and I am super passionate about spending time mentoring teens. \u00a0Here\u2019s a short list of all the different areas I currently am involved in:<\/p>\n
On the home front, my husband and I are celebrating our 20th<\/sup> anniversary this Christmas and we have an 11 year old daughter. \u00a0Our daughter attends a Christian school and aside from German school on Saturdays, she is very busy with her competitive ballet schedule which consumes almost every week night.<\/p>\n I grew up in the lower mainland and moved to New Brunswick for university where I graduated with a BA in History from Mount Allison University back in 1995. \u00a0After living in Toronto for a year and a half I moved to Germany in hopes of becoming more fluent in German. \u00a0I also thought I would like to be a translator but that is when I met my husband. \u00a0We lived for seven and a half years in Germany (Hannover and Munich), \u00a0but also lived another seven years in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) before moving back to BC 10 years ago.<\/p>\n Before I went back to school to earn my B.Ed. \u00a0I had obtained my TESL certification and taught ELL for 17 years in various private schools in Ontario, Germany and one local one in BC. \u00a0I always wanted to pursue more education and am thrilled to be in the midst of fulfilling one of my dreams right now. \u00a0I am encouraged that God is my strength, my rock and my salvation and I trust that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. \u00a0I am very blessed to be able to pursue post graduate studies through TWU.<\/p>\n This semester will be extremely busy for me as I have numerous obligations with course work, a swim team competition and a week-long Parliamentary Democracy conference in Victoria, alongside all of the other responsibilities that come with our teaching profession and home life. \u00a0Thankfully, it is not a federal election year, as I am eager to re-join my local EDA board and get more involved in the up-coming Federal election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friendly greetings to my fellow MAEL colleagues. My name is Ursula Neuscheler and I am a TWU alumni. \u00a0I graduated from the school of Education in 2015 and earned my BEd degree. I knew after my first semester that I really wanted to pursue my Masters but at the time I was really super passionate … <\/p>\n