Job Description

The KIPP Texas Teaching Fellows program is a one-year program designed for new teachers.  The fellow will spend a year in programming learning from a mentor teacher and gradually increasing their teaching responsibilities before moving into a lead teaching role the following year. During this year, fellows will also receive professional development from KIPP Texas and school leaders and coaching and development from a mentor teacher.  At the successful conclusion of the fellowship, fellows will be ready to assume a lead teaching position.

Above all else, the ideal Teaching Fellow must be committed to KIPP Texas' mission, while possessing the beliefs, character traits, and skills necessary to grow and ensure student growth and achievement.

DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Gradually increase teaching responsibilities throughout the year:

  • Pair and develop relationship with a mentor teacher;

  • Begin teaching the first few minutes of a mentor teacher’s class and gradually increase teaching responsibilities throughout the year until they are teaching a full class every day;

  • Participate in other teaching and staff responsibilities which can include, but are not limited to: small-group interventions, assisting during independent practice, assisting mentor teacher in lesson planning, preparing lessons, grading, and supervising lunch, arrival and dismissal. 

  • Support the teachers in ensuring that academic catch-up and recovery (as response to academic impacts of COVID), as well as academic acceleration benchmarks are met for students

   

• Successfully complete the Fellowship assessments and Checkpoints.

• Participate in regular professional learning led by the KIPP Texas Talent Development Team, including:

  • Summer professional development

  • Bi-weekly professional development 

  • Quarterly progress meetings

   

• Attend all school and regional level professional development sessions.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Desire to move into a teaching position

• Work toward the State of Texas’s qualifications for highly qualified teacher, preferred

• Experience working with children, preferred

Required Education and/or Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree, required

Preferred Education and/or Experience:

• Work toward the State of Texas’s qualifications for highly qualified teacher, preferred

Additional Information

FUNDING:

The Teaching Fellow will be funded directly from the Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief (ESSER) grants awarded by the Texas Education Agency under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (ESSER II) and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ESSER III). This position will be funded solely (100%) from the ESSER II and III allocation for direct expenses through September 30, 2023, and may continue to be funded through September 30, 2024, depending upon the availability of ESSER grant funds. At the end of the grant period this position may be eliminated unless other sources of funds are secured to maintain this position or a similar position. The employee must sign this job description acknowledging receipt of the job description and signing their acknowledgement that this position is grant funded and is temporarily aligning with the terms of the grant period.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

In addition to a competitive salary scale, a part of KIPP Texas’ competitive benefits options, KIPP offers all employees an $0 HMO plan for the employee only. In addition to our $0 plan, KIPP provides a $600 employer contribution towards a Health Savings Account and a variety of other supplemental benefits such as Dental, Vision, Short and Long-Term Disability, Pet Insurance, Life, etc.