Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (TX)-posted 3 months ago
Entry Level
Houston, TX
11-50 employees
Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

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.

  • 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
  • Enrolled at a partner University
  • Accepted into the CFISD Teacher Residency program and prepared to start residency in Spring 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
  • Paid Residency
  • Hiring opportunities with the host campus
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