Teaching in the Dark
A Memoir
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.
