Teacher Resume Examples

Writing a teacher resume that impresses principals isn’t always easy. Fortunately, we’ve compiled a few easy ways you can improve your teaching resume and start landing interviews.

Here are our top tips for writing a strong resume for any teaching position:

1. Begin with an informative resume objective

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), then 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.

Here’s an example of a general teaching resume objective that effectively showcases the candidates’ certifications, achievements, and relevant cultural/linguistic background:

Teacher Resume Objective Example

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 resume objective example is effective because it:

• mentions how much experience this applicant holds
• includes a statistic that shows how the candidate improved their students’ grades
• notes the candidate’s educational background and teaching certifications
• shows their desire to keep up to date by mentioning continuing education
• highlights their desire to work at a particular school

2. Back up your professional experience with numbers

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.

What if you lack accomplishments?

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 to prepare for examinations in a school of 4700+ students

3. Showcase your skills as a teacher

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.

If you’re not sure what to list on your teaching resume in 2022, here are some of the most in-demand job skills to include (according to anonymous data we’ve gathered from our resume builder):

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 for teachers

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:

• Curriculum planning
• Certificate in Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
• SMART boards
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation/automatic external defibrillator (CPR/AED)
• Blackboard
• Pearson ECollege
• Moodle 
• Sakai
• Lore
• MyEdu
• Instructure Canvas
• Microsoft Office
• GIMP
• Windows Movie Maker
• iMovie

Soft teaching skills

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:

• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Leadership skills
• Time management skills
• People skills

Technical skills for STEM teachers

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:

• Bunsen burners
• Soldering
• JavaScript
• Circuit boards
• Adobe Photoshop

4. Add a section for your teaching certifications

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. So 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.

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 our teacher resume sample, the candidate has taught primarily in Florida, where a middle school English teacher certification is called “Certification in Middle Grades English.”

Teach.com’s Where Can I Teach? map contains the details you need to find out which certifications to include on your resume.