CFISD Teacher Resident Job Description

Summary

The CFISD Teacher Resident (TR) is a student teacher who participates in a year-long paid teacher residency program under the guidance of a Resident Host Teacher (HT). While working alongside a trusted and experienced host teacher, the TR will be actively involved in many classroom elements. The TR will take on gradually increasing responsibilities throughout the residency year while developing as a teacher.

Typical responsibilities include learning while:

• Co-planning and co-teaching with HT and other team members, leading small group instruction, and leading instruction without the HT present (with planning support from HT)
• Attend professional development days, participating in team planning, professional learning communities, school-based professional development, campus faculty meetings, and meetings with the Site Coordinator (SC)
• Working with the HT to monitor and improve instruction, with formative and summative assessments, grading, data analysis, and rubrics to identify the next steps
• Adapting and improving high-standards, differentiation-ready lesson plans that motivate strong student learning, after learning to deliver such lessons prepared by the HT and/or experienced team members
• Managing procedures, supervising students, and developing students’ social-emotional skills during transitions, lunch, recess, assemblies, and other activities, and while team teachers plan or deliver instruction
• Embracing feedback from HTs, the Site Coordinator, and Administrators before, during, and after informal and formal observations
• Taking responsibility for other non-instructional duties as assigned by the HT

Responsibilities
(while learning from HT and collaborating with team; may vary)

Classroom and School Environment - Yearlong

• Identify and address individual students’ social, emotional, and behavioral learning needs and barriers
• Hold students accountable for ambitious, measurable, high expectations of behavior and engagement
• Contribute to a culture of respect, enthusiasm, and rapport
• Manage student behavior during transitions and less structured time (such as recess and lunch)
• Monitor independent work time in the classroom while the teacher provides instruction
• Identify and suggest ways to engage students in a physical/virtual classroom that include technology

Planning and Preparation - Progressively Doing More

• Co-plan with HT and team
• Ensure a high-standards, differentiation-ready curriculum
• Plan backward to align all lessons, activities, and assessments with high-expectation standards and curriculum
• Implement and suggest improvements to instruction that develop higher-order thinking skills and are personalized, reflecting the levels and interests of individual students
• Implement and suggest improvements to assessments that accurately reflect student progress

Instruction - Progressively Doing More

• Provide small-group instruction under the direction, and using tools/rubrics of, the HT and team
• Supervise student skills practice, projects, and digital learning
• Co-teach with HT
• Lead whole-group instruction
• Participate in instructional planning, data review, and improvement during the year

Professional Responsibilities

• Solicit and willingly receive feedback from HT, Principal, SC, and team members to improve professional skills
• Meet with HT to ensure alignment of instructional vision and delivery in all classrooms and troubleshoot students' persistent learning challenges
• Collaborate with other grade-level team members
• Participate in professional development opportunities at school
• Follow all district policies and maintain confidentiality

Qualifications

• Enrolled at the University of Houston-Downtown or Sam Houston State University
• Accepted into the CFISD Teacher Residency program and prepared to start residency in Fall 2024
• Good academic standing; 3.0 GPA preferred
• Strong work ethic, open to feedback, willingness to implement next steps, and a belief that all students can achieve
• Demonstrated effectiveness working with people with differing cultural backgrounds and/or personal characteristics, including race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or economic differences
• Preference given for experience working successfully with those of similar demographics to the desired school placement
• Knowledge of the subject matter being taught

Hours

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  Residents will be present during teacher contract hours and dates set by the district calendar. Candidates will follow district policy regarding personal and sick leave.

• • Undergraduate -
  • • Paid Residency:
    • • Semester 1: 3 days per week
      • Semester 2: 5 days per week

Post-Certification

• Hiring opportunities with the host campus

Reports to: Host Teacher, Principal, and Site Coordinator