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The Teacher resume template
For classroom teachers, teaching assistants and tutors. The header is a chalkboard green, headings get a highlighter stroke, and the sections are renamed for schools: Teaching Experience, Certification & Licensure, Classroom Skills.
- Best forPrimary, secondary, ESL, special education, TAs
- StructureFull-width header, main column plus a side card
- LengthOne to two pages
- ATSReal text; use Simple for district portals
What a head teacher reads for
Three things: what and who you have taught, whether you can run a room, and whether your pupils improved. The first is easy and most resumes stop there. The last one is what gets you an interview.
Writing teaching experience
For each school give the subject, the year groups or grades, and class sizes. Then bullets that show results:
Raised the Year 11 English pass rate from 61% to 79% in two years.
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Designed the department's Key Stage 3 reading curriculum, now used by 6 teachers.
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Introduced restorative behaviour routines; exclusions in my form group fell by half.
If you do not have exam data, use what you do have: reading ages, attendance, assessment growth, clubs started, parent feedback.
Certification and licensure
State licence or QTS, endorsements, and the date. Add safeguarding, first aid, SEN or ESL qualifications here too — schools filter on them.
The teaching profile
The summary is titled Teaching Profile. Two or three lines on your subject, the age range you teach best, and one thing you are known for. Avoid "passionate educator"; every applicant is.
Student teachers
Put each placement under Teaching Experience with the school, subject and weeks, and lead with your strongest lesson sequence.
If this one is not right
Three close alternatives, and every one carries your content across untouched when you switch.
Graduate
FreeEducation-first academic layout with a double-rule header for new graduates.
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FreeRounded-card layout with colour-coded sections that foregrounds coursework and projects.
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Frequently asked questions
One page for new teachers, two pages for experienced teachers with leadership roles. Schools read the whole thing, so cut anything that does not relate to teaching.
Not as a long statement on the resume. Put two or three concrete lines in the Teaching Profile and save the full philosophy for the cover letter or interview.
Curriculum design, differentiation, classroom management, assessment for learning, safeguarding and any technology you use daily, such as Google Classroom or interactive whiteboards.