Opportunity Culture Teacher Resident 2026
About The Position
Teacher residents are in their final year at a cooperating educator preparation provider, typically working toward certification or a bachelor's degree; they work full time for a full school year in various roles as determined by the multi-classroom leader (MCL) or mentor teacher while learning how to teach. The teacher resident is part of a small teaching tea m led by a MCL , an excellent teacher with prior high-growth student learning who leads, organizes, and develops a team of teachers and staff to serve multiple classrooms of students with excellence . Total instructional time exceeds that of typical student teaching roles . Teacher Residents work a minimum of 32 hours of a traditional 40-hour work week with 8 hours allowed each week for attending to coursework needed for degree/certification completion.
Requirements
- Knowledge of subject matter being taught
- Demonstrated interpersonal and group effectiveness working with adults and student, including interpersonal understanding and action to maintain relationships needed for success in school or similar environment
- In final year of a bachelor's degree program or working toward a teaching certificate
- Employment as a Teacher Resident is contingent upon meeting UTPB and Odessa College program requirements.
Responsibilities
- Ensure a high-standards, differentiation-ready curriculum
- Plan backward to align all lessons, activities, and assessments with high-expectation standards & curriculum
- Implement and suggest improvements to instruction that develops 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
- Hold students accountable for high expectations of behavior and engagement that are ambitious
- Together, create physical classroom environments conducive to collaborative and individual learning
- Establish a culture of respect, enthusiasm, and rapport
- Set high expectations of achievement for each student
- Hold students accountable for ambitious, measurable standards of academic achievement
- Identify and address individual students’ social, emotional, and behavioral learning needs and barriers
- Identify and address individual students’ development of organizational and time-management skills
- Invest students in their learning using influence techniques
- Incorporate questioning and discussion in student learning
- Incorporate small-group and individual instruction to personalize and tailor instruction to individual needs
- Monitor and analyze student assessment data
- Adjust instruction level and method for high growth
- Keep students informed of their progress
- Solicit and eagerly receive feedback from MCL and team members to improve professional skills
- Maintain regular communication with families, as assigned; work collaboratively with them to design learning both at home and at school, and to encourage a home life conducive to learning success
- Meet with team and MCL to ensure alignment of instructional vision and delivery in all classrooms and to troubleshoot students’ persistent learning challenges
- Perform all professional duties allocated by MCL
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
