OPPORTUNITY CULTURE TEACHER RESIDENT 2026

Job Title: Teacher Resident

Wage Status: Non-Exempt Reports to: Campus Principal and MCL or Mentor Teacher Pay Grade: Instructional Pay 6 Dept.: School To be assigned Days: 187 Primary Purpose:

Teacher residents are in their final year at a cooperating educator preparation provider, typically working toward certification or a bachelors 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 team 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.

Qualifications:

• Education
• Certification
• Knowledge of subject matter being taught
• Demonstrated interpersonal and group effectiveness working with adults and students, including interpersonal understanding and action to maintain relationships needed for success in school or similar environment
• In final year of a bachelors degree program or working toward a teaching certificate
• Employment as a Teacher Resident is contingent upon meeting UTPB and Odessa College program requirements.

Major Responsibilities and Duties:

Planning and Preparation

• 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

Classroom and School Environment

• 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
• Instruction
• 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

Professional Responsibilities

• 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

Critical Competencies:

Achievement

• The drive and actions to set challenging goals and reach a high standard of performance despite barriers
• Impact and Influence
• Acting with the purpose of influencing what other people think and do
• Interpersonal Understanding
• Understanding and interpreting others concerns, motives, feelings, and behaviors
• Teamwork
• The ability and actions needed to work with others to achieve shared goals
• Flexibility
• The ability to adapt ones approach to the requirements of a situation and to change tactics
• Concern for Others
• An underlying drive to maintain or increase order in the surrounding environment
• Serving Others
• Acting with a desire to help or serve others to meet their needs

Working Conditions:

• Mental Demands
• Physical Demands
• Environmental Factors
• Maintain emotional control under stress

Fund Sources:

• Funding for this role may include some or all of these funding sources:
• Local Title I
• Comp-Ed

The foregoing statements describe the general purpose and responsibilities assigned to this job and are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties that may be assigned or skills that may be required.

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