CFISD Teacher Residency

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 Fall 2026

* 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