Genét Simone was a college graduate without any professional experience when she accepted a teaching job in the remote Iñuit village of Shishmaref, Alaska. Through humor and exquisite description of the landscape, Simone details how she worked through culture shock and first-year teacher anxieties and missteps. Still, she came away with life lessons about becoming a real teacher--lessons taught by her students and their culture on the vast, windy landscape at the edge of the Chukchi Sea.
Directed by humility and humor, "Teaching in the Dark" covers a nascent educator’s career evolution. Educator Genét Simone’s memoir "Teaching in the Dark" is about the tumult of her first year of teaching in a remote Alaskan village. In 1984 Simone was a recent college graduate. She applied...
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