Teaching in the Dark

Genét Simone

Description

The true story of a novice teacher’s experiences when she travels to a remote Alaska village and tries to make a difference in her students’ lives.
A young teacher buys a one-way ticket to Shishmaref, Alaska. Within minutes of landing, she finds herself dealing with unexpected, rustic accommodations, and the culture shock of living in a remote Iñuit community. She relies on her courage, resilience, and wit while enduring freezing temperatures, power outages, loneliness, and first-year teacher anxieties and missteps, but eventually realizes that those challenges pale in comparison to the life lessons she learns about the heart of teaching—lessons from her students, their culture, and their community, on the vast, windy landscape at the edge of the Chukchi Sea.

Sujets

• Ethnic
• Cultural
• Teaching
• Biography
• Arctic
• Education
• Regional
• Autobiography
• Alaska

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 22 septembre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798765244302
• Langue: English

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