Other Optional Elements For A Teacher’s Resume

The rest of your teacher resume can include any of the following elements. Again, choose those which sell you best as a teacher.

1. Work experience not related to teaching, science or math : This element is optional because your teaching experience is what interests principals and other hiring authorities the most. List these jobs in reverse chronological order.

2. Career Objective : This is a statement of what kind of job you’re seeking. Example: ‘To obtain a Math teacher’s position in a secondary school’. Don’t get too flowery or trite. E.g. ’seeking a challenging position’ – aren’t all teaching jobs challenging?

3. Honors and Activities : If you have some impressive honors (Dean’s list, Phi Delta Kappa, any scholarships or achievement awards), or activities which relate to teaching, you can list them.

4. Special Skills : Fluency or proficiency in foreign languages, use of advanced calculators or mathematics software, etc.

5. Professional Preparation/Development : Special workshops, seminars etc. that you’ve attended.

6. Professional Memberships : List those professional associations to which you belong. Include any leadership position or committee memberships. E.g. National Science Teachers Association.

Consider the following when you are developing your resume

1. Your uniqueness as a teacher or your positive trends as a teacher.
2. Techniques developed to teach a particular lesson.
3. Contribution to any special event for the class/entire school.

Four required elements in teacher resume

1. Identification : Include your name, address, phone and email address. Your name should have a larger font size as compared to the other text.

2. Certification : List your certifications and any endorsements, and the date. For example: ‘Illinois Initial Secondary Certificate in Mathematics, expected December 2001. Endorsement expected in Middle Grade Mathematics’. Once you have your certificate, delete the date and list the certificate number instead.

3. Teaching Experience : Use the list of action verbs located on the left of this page to describe your experiences in the classroom. They specially like to read about your classroom management skills/strategies, the teaching methods you use, any experience with students with special needs, and the interactions with their parents. Include job title, where you worked as a teacher, along with tenure dates.

4. Related Experience : This is where you list paid or unpaid work which gave you all your experiences. You can also list science or math related employment in this section.

Frequently asked Teacher Interview Question

1. Describe your student teaching successes and failures?

2. You give an assignment. A student ridicules the assignment, saying it doesn’t make sense. What would you do?

3. How do you help students experience success?

4. How would you individualize instruction for students?

5. What procedures do you use to evaluate student progress besides using tests?

6. How would you challenge the slow learner and the advanced learner within the same class?

7. What would your students say about you?

Sample Teacher Resume Template

Contact information

In this section you have to include your Name, current home address, Mobile telephone number, Landline telephone number and your personal email address which is currently used.

Full name
Present and permanent addresses
Telephone numbers
Email address
Professional or career objective

Your objective is the one that clearly underlines your aims and aspirations in that profession. For example a Education Graduate will have to write an objective which is concise and precisely speaks about his role that he wants to play in the Organization.

Career Achievements

If you have any major Career Achievements or any Appreciation then this is the section where they should be listed. For Example a Teacher can add his/her career achievements like,

Play key role in orchestrating the adoption of new mathematical programmers.
Integrated English instruction into all subject matters.
Identified need for an after school programmed to update the English grammar and literature of students.
Designed and implemented lesson plans for four classes: probability and statistics, college algebra, geometry, and math concepts.
Restructured classroom policy to reflect my classroom management style of consensus-building.
Experience:

Previous work experience plays an important role while applying for a Job and hence it should be well presented in the resume. Most of the questions during your resume will be related to the previous job that you had and hence you should be well prepared for it. You should begin with putting the name of the organization that you worked for, the duration of your work and the post or the designation at which you were working. After this, you can effectively place points in a bulleted format that talk about the responsibilities and the achievements that you may have achieved during your stay at the previous organization.

Education and Certification:

The academic details need to be mentioned in a tabulated format with respect to the degrees or the courses that the candidate would have undertaken in the past. The latest degree or course comes first followed by the last completed course and hence forth going backwards.

References:

The References are generally required so that your present employer can gauge you through the eyes of the people who you were associated with or have worked for. So your teachers or college professors’ details could be placed here. Or your past employer who you would have worked under can also be used as a reference. Ensure that the people whose names you enter know you well and do inform them that you are placing their names as reference because many companies call to confirm.

Four required elements in teacher resume

1. Identification : Include your name, address, phone and email address. Your name should have a larger font size as compared to the other text.

2. Certification : List your certifications and any endorsements, and the date. For example: ‘Illinois Initial Secondary Certificate in Mathematics, expected December 2001. Endorsement expected in Middle Grade Mathematics’. Once you have your certificate, delete the date and list the certificate number instead, for instance : #1234567.

3. Teaching Experience : Use the list of action verbs located on the left of this page to describe your experiences in the classroom. They specially like to read about your classroom management skills/strategies, the teaching methods you use, any experience with students with special needs, and the interactions with their parents. Include job title, where you worked as a teacher, along with tenure dates.

4. Related Experience : This is where you list paid or unpaid work which gave you all your experiences. You can also list science or math related employment in this section.

The Teacher Vs. the Parents

They say that in all humor is a bit of truth. I came across a very funny blog post at learnmegood2.blogspot.com in the form of a welcome letter to parents. This teacher thought it would be fun to write a mock letter to undoubtedly get all his teacher friends laughing while mocking parents in general.
My mother (God rest her soul) was a teacher, so I do understand the humor in the post, and even recognized a bit of it as being true. But it generally characterized parents as buffoons that children needed to be protected from.

One of the lines that found most offensive are: “Remember that school starts promptly at 8:00, and your child should be in his/her seat, ready to work when the bell rings. Please do NOT set your alarm clock for 7:55 and expect to get there in time for your child to have breakfast.” Granted, there are some parents who tend to habitually sleep late and therefore have habitually late kids. But this line does letter goes out to all (pretend) parents and not just the tardy few. This “joke” indicates that the teacher thinks that parents don’t care enough to do due diligence in getting their kids to school.