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 a partner University
- Accepted into the CFISD Teacher Residency program and prepared to start residency in Spring 2027
- 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
- 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