This position is part of our TCLASS Grant with SFA and SHSU. Individual must be employed by the district and fulfill the attached criteria for selection. This position includes a $5,000 stipend for working with a Teacher Resident for the entire 2024- 2025 school year.

Mentor Teacher Selection Criteria

• At least three years of successful teaching experience
• Track record of having a positive impact on student achievement outcomes
• Proficient/Exemplary evaluations
• Desire/willingness to co-teach daily
• Commitment to attending quarterly professional learning seminars
• Commitment to evaluating instructional performance in a timely and truthful manner
• Established record of confidentiality between site coordinator, teacher candidate, master teacher

Roles & Responsibilities of the Mentor Teacher

• Attend and participate in mentor professional learning seminars at school site (see training calendar)
• Devoting the time needed to develop the skills required of an outstanding teacher applicant and providing quality mastering to the teacher candidate
• Successfully and consistently implement a co-teaching model within a classroom setting
• Providing support to the teacher candidate in their new role as practitioner with responsibility for

student learning by listening to and helping the teacher candidate to solve problems and serving as a role model and leading by example

• Facilitating coaching conversations that challenge and support the teacher candidate to use evidence to develop teaching strengths and assisting the teacher candidate to gather and analyze learner data to inform differentiation in approaches to teaching
• Promoting the profession and public education through expressing positive feelings about teaching and helping the teacher candidate attain the same feelings
• Report progress of teacher candidates through bi-weekly survey evaluations