What are the responsibilities and job description for the Teacher Resident position at New Paradigm for Education?
Who We Are
New Paradigm For Education (NPFE) is a non-profit Charter Management Organization (CMO) composed of educational practitioners, community advocates, and business leaders who have dedicated years of service to children. NPFE serves 2,100 students in Detroit, Michigan. We specialize in maximizing student learning potential through proven education practices and managing all phases of school design, planning, and program implementation.
Why New Paradigm for Education
NPFE is on a mission to ensure that all students in Detroit achieve at the highest levels, supporting educational transformation through increased student achievement, fiscal responsibility, and community support. NPFE’s Mission is to provide a quality education through shared responsibility in a safe supportive environment for all students to meet the needs of a global society. We are committed to excellence and strive to offer a new educational paradigm evident by increased student achievement, fiscal responsibility, and community support.
New Paradigm for Education seeks educators who have a relentless belief that all students, regardless of their race and economic or social circumstances, can perform at high levels, deserve a quality education, have access to high quality instruction and curriculum, and can attain post secondary success. Educators who are driven bv academic achievement, continuous growth, and excel working in a rigorous and supportive environment. We seek culturally responsive educators who have experience working with diverse communities and strong relationship-building skills that they apply to understand their students, families, and communities.
About NPFE's Teacher Residency
Quality teaching is the most critical in-school factor to student success. For Michigan students to be successful, we not only need more teachers, but we need a more diverse teacher workforce and to ensure that the teachers in front of our students, particularly our most vulnerable students, have been rigorously prepared to succeed.
Since 2013, the number of teachers gaining certification in Michigan has decreased by 62% and the number of African American teachers in core classroom subjects has declined by 51%. Yet research indicates that “teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color, enact more culturally relevant teaching, have more positive perceptions of students of color, [and] assist in helping students of color feel more welcome at school.”[8] A 2018 study from researchers at Johns Hopkins showed that 13 percent of black students who had one black teacher were more likely to enroll in college. That number increased to 32 percent when students had two black teachers.
Grounded in our long history of providing thoughtful, rigorous preparation to our instructional staff, New Paradigm For Education’s Teacher Residency is a state of Michigan approved alternate route to certification program that will provide an affordable, high-quality pathway to teaching through a three-year residency. The program will offer an innovative and scaffolded approach to training and retaining high quality teachers, particularly teachers of color and male teachers of color while offering financial incentives to reduce barriers for candidates.
A diverse and rigorously prepared teaching workforce is essential to providing the best education possible for all students, particularly students of color. New Paradigm for Education seeks to be a critical part of solving educational inequity in Detroit and the greater metropolitan area by strengthening the pipeline of teachers, deeply investing in their overall growth, development and wellness, and focusing on creating new sustainable pathways for teachers of color, Black men in particular, to enter and stay in the field of education.
What You’ll Do
NPFE seeks individuals who are passionate about education, eager to learn and grow, and interested in education as a long-term, sustainable career path to join our Teacher Residency. Over the course of the 3 year residency you will -
Instruct students - in both small and large group settings
Receive support to study for and pass your Michigan Tests for Teacher Certification (MTTC)
Engage in rigorous, job-aligned training and coursework focused on best practices in teaching and instructional practice
Receive intensive mentoring and support from highly skilled, effective teachers and instructional leaders
Obtain your Interim Teaching Certification for the state of Michigan and work as a teacher of record in your classroom
The Residency will take place over the course of three (3) years. Teachers who make a longer (5 year) commitment to our network will receive their full certification at a nominal cost.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited institution
Prior experience working with children in grades PK-12 preferred
