Resident Teacher

Resident Teacher Job Description

The resident teacher (RT) is a student teacher who participates in a year-long enhanced residency experience under the guidance of a highly effective host teacher (HT). A resident observes and learns on the job in preparation for a teaching career while earning a degree from Sam Houston State University or Lamar University. For a full school year, the resident works alongside the HT.

Residents are actively engaged in as many elements of the classroom as possible from the very beginning of the residency year, which follows the school district calendar from beginning of year to end of year. The resident will gradually assume greater responsibilities throughout the residency year as they develop as a teacher. Compensated roles must not compromise learning goals for future teachers.

Typical responsibilities include learning while:

• Co-planning and co-teaching with HT and other team members, leading small group instruction, leading instruction without the HT present (with planning support from HT)
• Attending professional development prior to the start of the school year and on-going throughout the school year
• Participating in team planning, Professional Learning Communities, school-based professional development, campus faculty meetings, and meetings with their Site Coordinator (SC)
• Working with the HT to monitor and improve instruction with formative and summative assessments, grading, data analysis, and rubrics to identify 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, maintaining student safety, 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 the HT and the Site Coordinator before, during, and after informal and formal observations
• Taking responsibility for other non-instructional duties as assigned by the HT
• Under HT supervision, engage with district technology applications required of classroom teachers

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

• 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, lunch)
• Monitor independent work time in classroom while teacher provides instruction
• Identify and suggest ways to engage students in a physical classroom that include technology

• Co-plan and co-teach with HT and other team members, lead small group instruction, lead instruction without the Host Teacher present (with planning support from HT)
• Implement the district adopted curriculum
• Plan backward to align all lessons, activities, and assessments with high-expectation standards & curriculum
• Implement and suggest improvements to instruction that develop higher-order thinking skills and is personalized, reflecting the levels and interests of individual students
• Implement and suggest improvements to assessments that accurately assess student progress

• Internalize, adapt and improve high-standards, differentiation-ready lesson plans that motivate strong student learning by demonstrating the ability to deliver such lessons prepared by the Host Teacher and/or experienced team members.
• 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

• Solicit and willingly receive feedback from HT, Campus Administrator, SC, and team members to improve…