Writing a Teaching Resume

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Laura, from youngwritersworkshops.com, and I'm going to talk about how to write a teacher's resume. If you're a teacher looking for a new job you'll want to polish your resume by putting it together to include all of your experience, your work experience. Most resumes in the teaching field have the basic information at the top of your contact information, followed by a section entitled education, and another section entitled work experience. Many teachers also include a statement, a personal statement, such as I or your goal, your professional goal, or it could be a statement about your strengths as a teacher, or a quick description of yourself as a teacher. An example might be a compassionate educational leader who values her students and her colleagues. Something that you think can concisely sum you up as a teacher. Make sure that you include all of your experience. Even if you think working at a camp might not be relevant this this speaks about the duration of your experience. You might have experience from the years before you were a teacher that ev gives some evidence to the fact that you've been committed to this field or working with children for a long time. Make sure to proofread your resume very carefully. It's very easy to overlook typos or grammatical errors in your own resume because you've looked at it so much, so have someone else review it, use a spell check and a grammar check, and then go back over it for formatting issues as well. Be sure, again, that you've included all the contact information, and that it's all current; that you've listed all of your education and all of your work experience, and you should have a strong teaching resume."