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Use our 13 teacher resume examples to give you the know-how to write an effective teacher resume. Additionally, make sure to write a teacher cover letter to pair with your application and give you the best chance of success.
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Struggling to write your teacher resume? Copy-paste the following text from a generic teacher resume example into either a Word file or a professional resume template and adjust it as much as you need.
Teacher Resume Example
FIRST AND LAST NAME
Email: your.email@gmail.com
Phone: (123) 456-7891
Address: Street, City, State
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yourprofile
Resume Objective
Innovative professional with a strong track record of improving test scores by adapting teaching methods to students’ needs. Able to develop personal relationships with students and build their confidence in their abilities. Looking to support the school’s mission by creating a personal, engaging learning environment that celebrates students’ unique talents and ideas.
Certifications
Professional Experience
Education
Skills
Eager to create your teacher resume but feeling uncertain about how to make yourself stand out? Our Career Advisor Emily guides you through the resume writing process for aspiring and experienced teachers:
To expand on Emily’s advice, here are our tips on how you can leverage your skills to write a standout teacher resume:
A resume objective summarizes your major work-related accomplishments, skills, and certifications in two to four sentences, and targets the specific job you’re applying for.
As a teacher, this is a great way to start your resume because it allows you to quickly showcase your qualifications to hiring managers and principals. If you’re applying for competitive positions (like those high-end private school jobs), immediately communicating your skills as an educator can give you an edge over other candidates.
When you write your teacher resume objective, begin by highlighting your most impressive successes as an educator and how you can apply them to the school you want to work at.
Additionally, back up any claims you make in your resume objective with hard numbers. For example, don’t just write that you raised average grades, but state you raised average grades by 17%.
Here’s an example of a general teaching resume objective that effectively showcases the candidates’ certifications, achievements, and relevant cultural/linguistic background:
Bilingual public school teacher with 6+ years of teaching experience at multiple grade levels. Possess a BA in Education with a minor in Spanish, a California teaching license, and 15 Continuing Education credits. Ready to use my language expertise, cultural understanding, and proven teaching ability increasing average grades by 15% to help Williams High School students reach their academic goals.
This teacher resume objective example is effective because it:
For a little extra help, try experimenting with our resume summary generator to come up with a resume introduction that shows off your teaching qualifications.
Don’t just include hard numbers in your resume objective — also use them throughout your resume. Using numbers in your resume experience section in particular helps you better highlight the skills, abilities, and knowledge you’ve accumulated during your career as an educator.
Here’s an example from our teacher sample resume where the candidate uses numbers to support their achievements. In a single quantified bullet point, the candidate demonstrates their greatest teaching accomplishment and shows hiring managers the value they can provide if given the job:
Ensured that all students understood the curriculum and provided support to students who required extra guidance, resulting in a 16% increase in writing and reading comprehension test scores over 3 years
This candidate’s ability to raise test scores demonstrates that they’re a skilled teacher and a potentially valuable hire, especially for a school that wants to improve its overall test scores and receive more funding.
If you’re new to teaching or a recent graduate, you might not have a lot of hard numbers or achievements to reference on your resume.
However, you can still add some detail to your resume by giving hiring managers an example or two of your skills and abilities.
For instance, you can quantify the number of students you work with per semester:
Assess the progress of 150+ students throughout the term and work closely with other staff to efficiently plan and coordinate work
Or quantify the size of the school you work in:
…with curriculum objectives and assist students in preparing for examinations in a school of 4700+ students
Remember, your bullet points shouldn’t simply be a list of your duties and responsibilities. Instead, they should illustrate your impact and the results you’ve delivered for your students and school.
Your teaching skills need to be kept up to date on your resume because teaching methods often change because of new research and Board of Education policy shifts. Here are some skills you should add to your teaching resume that are in high demand this year:
Additionally, you should showcase a balance of soft and hard skills throughout your resume skills section to show schools that you have the technical knowledge to teach as well as the personality to handle difficult classrooms.
Hard skills are abilities you’ve taken the time to learn and get certified for. Here are some hard teacher skills to include on your resume:
Soft skills relate to your personality and ability to work with others. Soft skills are critical skills for educators because they help them empathize with students and find creative ways to teach a variety of learners. Here are some top soft skills for teachers:
As a teacher, it’s easy to focus on how well you can communicate with your students, but don’t forget that you need to have excellent skills for communicating with adults as well.
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“Teachers need to be able to effectively communicate to parents and caregivers to inform them about what is happening in the classroom. A teacher could be phenomenal with the instruction of students, but they need to be able to communicate across parents and caregivers.”
- Annie George-Puskar, Assistant Professor at Fordham University
Demonstrate your ability to communicate effectively with parents on your resume by including successful parent-teacher conferences or ways you collaborated with caregivers to meet the needs of students.
To fully showcase your teacher skills, resumes for teachers of IT, science, and technology should include a technical skills section in addition to their main skills section. In this technical skills section, describe any special equipment and software you can use, such as:
One of the first things any school looks for on your resume are your teaching degree and certifications. Make it easy for hiring committees to find by listing all of your teaching certifications on your resume in a dedicated section.
If you don’t have much experience as a teacher yet, it’s particularly important that schools see that you’re qualified to be an educator. If you lack experience, list your certifications section toward the top of the page so they’re the first thing employers see when reviewing your application.
Teaching Assistant Course
Adult Education Centre, Chicago, IL / 2017
CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Cambridge CELTA Course Online / 2016
If you haven’t received your teaching certification yet, include the date you expect to receive the certification.
Certifications differ greatly between states, so make sure you know how they’re listed in the state you’re applying for teaching work. In Florida, for example, a middle school English teacher could simply write “Florida Certification in Middle Grades English” in their certifications section.
Teach.com’s Where Can I Teach? map contains the details you need to find out which certifications to include on your resume.
Geoffrey Scott, CPRW
Geoff Scott is an experienced Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) & Career Coach at Resume Genius, where he teaches an international audience how to improve their...
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