Writing Your Resume

It’s that time of year when many are looking at updating or writing a new teacher resume. We are sharing a template you might choose to use in this process.

If you are beginning to look at writing your resume or updating your resume, we are hoping this teacher resume template we are providing will be helpful.

There are many ideas and approaches to writing a teacher resume, this is just one Cathy has used in the past.

In 2012, I had three student teachers in my classroom at one time! I spent a great deal of time looking at and sharing resumes to help my trio look for jobs.

I’ve found that when you start searching for quality resumes for education, it isn’t easy to find what you’re looking for.  I’m definitely not an expert on this topic, but I’m hoping what I’ve learned from my research will help.  I hope these tips help you write an impressive resume that helps you get the job you’re looking for!

You will notice that it is two pages long.  In many other professions, it is strongly suggested that resumes are exactly one page.  However, in education it is common for teachers to have a resume that is two pages long.

I like the layout of my current resume because I feel like it looks professional.

You don’t want to add anything cute to your resume; you want to let administrators you will take this job seriously.

However, my current resume has a few elements which make it stand out from a typically formatted resume.  I like the solid lines to separate the sections and the bullets at the top.  The format will make the resume stand out a little but in a good way.

The bullets at the top are the most important part.  Principals and other administrators can receive hundreds of applications.  Not every word of every resume will be read.  Administrators often know what they’re looking for.  Adding the bullets at the top with the strongest skills you posses, can grab the reader’s attention and get them to keep reading.

Make sure the skills you bullet align with current best practice in education.

For example, my past resume had 4 Block Implementation as one of my core competencies.  When the resume was written, this was considered best practice for teaching reading.  However, methods have changed and this would now be a skill that would make it appear as if I was not up to date on current educational practices. This resume was from 2012, I feel like it is in need of a new update with current educational language!

Here you can download my resume:

You can download the PDF here – Cathy’s resume     Or, you can download the word document here – Cathy’s resume

I hope these tips and the example help you write a resume that gets you the interview!

Have other tips?  Please share below, I’m sure all of the new college graduates out their would appreciate it!

~Cathy