The Kuspuk School District's Filipino teachers in Aniak are enjoying exploring a new place. But they say there are a few challenges that come with living in the rural U.S.
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A secondary education social studies major with a minor in history, Biesecker started job-hunting last spring and found that teaching jobs weren’t quite as prevalent as usual because of the havoc wreaked by COVID-19 in schools nationwide.
Her student teaching supervisor, Al D’Ambrosia, an instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction field experiences, mentioned that people were finding jobs in Alaska. “So, I decided to take a look and see what was out there,” Biesecker said.
Eighteen days after scanning the Alaska Teacher Placement website, Biesecker was in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, nearly 3,500 miles away from her McSherrystown home in Adams County.