If you're wondering how to create a perfect teacher resume, you're in the right place!
These resume samples will get you noticed by potential employers and provide you with all the information you’ll need. This way, you can build your own world-class resume and ‘wow’ a potential employer into hiring you.
In our Resume Guide for Teachers, we’ll describe in depth how you can create a resume that will surpass the competition.
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When employers are searching for a new Teacher, they’ll look for candidates that have matching skill sets and experiences. It’s thus essential that you fill in the sections below. With the parts below, you can depict a clear picture of yourself and describe what they can expect of you as their new Teacher. By utilizing this format, you’ll appear better suited for the position. This, in turn, will increase your chances of getting that new Teacher role.
Contact information:
Career objective or profile summary:
Although this section is optional, it could really benefit your position as an applicant. Always use the job description as your guide when writing this part. The more you sound like them, the better fit you will seem. (see examples below)
Qualifications summary:
What are your top qualities as a Teacher and as a person?
Relevant experience as a Teacher:
Study, diplomas, your history in career and other activities that benefited you as a Teacher. Also, include your daily responsibilities and achievements.
Do you have employment experience other than being a Teacher? This is the time to show the hiring manager your previous work experience and work ethic
Skills summary/ essential skills:
Incorporate skills that benefit you as a Teacher
Education, certifications, licenses, and training:
Which path led you to get ready to work as a Teacher?
Despite your experience, there are a few other essential aspects that employers need to know about to make sure you are a good fit for their team.
As a Teacher, your most significant achievements are to educate, motivate and stimulate students. To accomplish these achievements, you can use multiple effective strategies to move students toward higher levels of thinking. You are also coaching and motivating them to be problem-solvers and active learners.
Make sure you highlight your experiences with teaching, coaching, and motivating students, including your educational strategies.
Do you have the required responsibilities and qualifications the employer is looking for? Be very explicit about all this and use the job description as the common threat.
Next, the hiring manager surely wants to know about your capability to build strong relationships with students, parents, colleagues, and other relevant stakeholders.
As a teacher, your primary focus is your students and creating a positive learning environment for them. But communicating, cooperating, and involving your colleagues as well as other parties such as parents are also part of your job as a Teacher.
Include in your CV your previous responsibilities concerning relationships and which activities led you to be a strong connector.
Lastly, employers are not only looking for skilled and experienced Teachers. They also want to be sure about you being a worthy addition to the team and the organization. Include your best practices in education, with detailed descriptions about you being a passionate, collaborative, innovative, and knowledgeable Teacher.
Hiring managers are extremely busy. They get many teacher resumes and have very little time to actually read them. It’s therefore important that you capture their interest early on in your career objective. Do this by revealing your value immediately.
Once you captivated their attention, they will be compelled to read the rest. Also, keep your career objective clear and concise. Lead with the most essential information and cut the extra fluff.
Your career objective should start with your years of experience as a Teacher and your main responsibilities. To decide which responsibilities to add, use the job description as your guide.
For instance, if the description mentions fulfilling the potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth, apply these words in your objective. This will lead to being recognized as a suitable Teacher.
Include also a line about your qualities that will help the students, the school and the team.
A hiring manager would be excited to know that you are an “organized professional who can maintain order and discipline in the classroom” or that you are a “reliable and dependable Teacher who understands the importance of social-emotional needs of students”.
Make sure you prove these qualities in the professional experience section for re-enforcement of your message. And finish with your educational degrees and any certifications you possess that are relevant to the position.
Example 1
“A professional, caring and organized Teacher with 7 years experience of teaching multiple grades. My dedication is to provide students with appropriate learning activities and adventures designed to fulfill their potential for emotional, intellectual, social and physical growth. I want to enable students to develop skills to function successfully in further life.”
Example 2
“A loving, flexible and hardworking Teacher with 5 years experience in using educational strategies to maximize student growth. I am an innovative educator who focuses on continual improvement of self and others by applying a professional learning community model. Responsible for instructing students in elementary grades and creating lesson plans and instructing students on core subjects such as science, literature, and math.”