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= **Welcome to my Wiki for ELED 408** =

**Children's Literature**
**My name is Victoria and finally I am a Senior at Salisbury University! It has been a journey getting thus far in my college career. I was blessed with****the love and appreciate for reading and literature. Children's literature is my passion and I have instilled this love into my four year old son Austin. Along with every other normal child he has a playroom, but unlike many four year olds, Austin has a library built into his playroom filled with hundreds and hundreds of books. I hope this class introduces me to a variety of different global, critical, creative, and personal perspectives that will not only shape and prepare me for my career in teaching but to also help enhance my son's love of books as well as my students.**  media type="youtube" key="vKyk0wtyf6c" height="345" width="560"  **"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand" (O.W.). When I stand back and look at my life I have come to realize who I am as a person, where I have come from, and where I aspire to go. I am from a huge family that has given me the foundation of a simple yet happy life.The importance of education, the freedom to be who we truly are is an amazing gift given to us by our parents. When I became pregnant my freshman year of college, did not realize then what an amazing gift children can bring into our lives. This small detour that I made in my life has in fact become my most blessed! Austin who is now four is my reason for becoming a future teacher. I did not realize until recently that there is a gift in people's imperfections. Here are a few of mine: I am an academic and a lover of the intuitive. I am a teacher and I am a student. I am seriously focused and I am whimsically creative. My safe place is with my son and the space I most often crave is alone time. I am full of fear and I am full of courage. I trust my head, I'm learning to trust my heart, and I try to live in the soulful place that connects the two. -Victoria Gebert **
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