Teacher Resume Example
A teaching resume is screened for fit against a specific vacancy: subject, grade band, board or curriculum, and certification. A generalist resume that does not name those gets filtered before anyone reads about your pedagogy.
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What a teacher resume has to prove
Beyond the fit criteria, what distinguishes candidates is evidence of student outcomes and of work beyond the classroom — curriculum you wrote, colleagues you mentored, programmes you started.
Professional summary example
Four lines at the top of the page. Lead with the shape of your experience, then one result that proves it.
Secondary mathematics teacher with 8 years across CBSE and IB curricula, teaching grades 9–12 including IB HL. Raised board-exam distinction rates from 34% to 52% over three cohorts, and wrote the school's grade 9–10 scheme of work now in its fourth year of use.
Achievement bullet points
Written the way this role is measured. Swap the numbers for yours — keep the shape.
- Taught grades 9–12 mathematics across CBSE and IB, including IB HL, to classes of 32–38 students
- Raised the proportion of students achieving distinction from 34% to 52% across three consecutive board cohorts
- Wrote the grade 9–10 scheme of work and assessment bank now used by all four mathematics teachers, in its fourth year
- Ran a weekly intervention clinic for 20 at-risk students; 17 moved up at least one grade band over the year
- Mentored 3 newly qualified teachers through induction, including lesson observation and feedback cycles
Skills to list
Roughly in order of how often they appear in postings for this role.
- Curriculum planning and scheme of work design
- Differentiated instruction
- Formative and summative assessment
- Classroom management
- CBSE and IB curricula
- Data-driven intervention
- Parent communication
- Google Classroom / LMS platforms
- Special educational needs support
- Mentoring and lesson observation
ATS keywords
Include the ones that are genuinely true of you — a keyword you cannot discuss in an interview costs more than it wins.
- teacher
- curriculum development
- lesson planning
- classroom management
- student assessment
- differentiated instruction
- IEP
- parent communication
- educational technology
- student engagement
Mistakes that sink teacher resumes
- Not naming subject, grade band and curriculum in the first two lines — these are the filter.
- Describing philosophy instead of results. Save the philosophy for the cover letter.
- Omitting class sizes and cohort numbers, which set the scale of the work.
- Leaving certification and registration details off, or without their status and date.
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