Middle School Teacher Apprentice

2026‑2027 SCHOOL YEAR ROLE

The Teacher Apprentice serves as an in‑house substitute teacher, gaining valuable experience across diverse subjects and grade levels while participating fully in instructional professional development and coaching. This role is ideal for candidates who are highly committed to urban education and the mission of Tulsa Honor Academy but have limited to no teaching experience. Through consistent and targeted development, this person will be a very strong candidate for future teaching positions;

thus, this role is also ideal for candidates who want to teach at THA but want to gain greater experience before jumping into a teaching role.

It is hard, but joyful for both kids and adults. We work hard, but love just as hard.

• Develop a palpably positive classroom and school climate with frequent and authentic instances of shared smiling, laughter and enthusiasm where joy is deeply rooted in achievement, the content, and team/individual successes.
• Believe that scholar actions and mindsets stem from teacher actions and mindsets.

-Back‑to‑basics, liberal arts school.

• Develop a strong skill foundation.
• Ensure all scholars complete the cognitive work during the lesson, such as reading, writing, discussion, analysis, meaning‑making, computation, and problem‑solving.
• Display that you value risk‑taking, especially when the work is challenging. Expect all scholars to attempt all work, take academic risks, and learn from their mistakes.

• Sweat the small stuff.
• Believe that scholars want and need to be held to a higher standard and that scholars are capable of making good choices.
• Teach and enforce school‑wide systems, rules and consequences, disciplinary codes, and rewards at all times.
• Know that warm and strict are not opposites.

• Value parents as our partners.
• Model what we expect because we know adults drive culture.
• Believe in a all‑hands‑on‑deck mentality.

• Gain energy from the feedback cycle, not lose it.
• Use feedback to make productive changes in performance.

• Ensure our community is an inclusive and safe place.

• Execute rigorous instructional materials.
• Support teammates, families and scholars.
• Do whatever it takes to ensure our scholars go to and graduate from college.

• Classroom Culture: A Teacher ensures scholars are full participants in a structured, productive and safe learning environment. Teachers do this through participation, internalization of class/school culture systems, consistent routines, engaging in meaningful work, celebration of character values and a belief that one can be both warm and strict.
• Ambitious Content: A Teacher ensures that scholars work with content that will best develop their understanding of ideas and skills essential to the course. Teachers do this by backwards planning, clearly communicating objectives, executing rigorous course materials, assisting scholars in making meaningful connections and frequently utilizing formal and informal data to ensure mastery.
• Ownership and Engagement: A Teacher must ensure scholars are deeply engaged in the work. THA knows scholars are deeply engaged when they synthesize diverse information/perspectives/view points, consistently complete the cognitive work during the lesson, build upon peers’ thinking, receive feedback from teacher and peers, take academic risks and provide meaningful oral or written evidence to support their thinking.
• Demonstration of Learning: A Teacher ensures that scholars are able to demonstrate their learning, including the mastery of rigorous course goals. To do this, teachers must know the status of each scholar’s progress towards an objective, scholars must display deep understanding through use of formal and informal assessments, scholars must monitor their own progress, and teachers must ensure scholars are on track to achieve or surpass rigorous course learning goals.
• Commitment to Excellence: A Teacher at THA must display a commitment to their team and improving their craft. Teachers do this through collaborative relationships, remaining engaged, demonstrating ownership for shared culture, remaining solutions‑oriented and embodying THA’s commitment to continual…