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Every teacher plans lessons, grades work and manages a classroom. What sets a resume apart is what happened because of the teaching: a proficiency rate that moved, a program you built that other teachers now use, a group of struggling readers who caught up. If you do not have a testing number, class size and grade span still tell a hiring committee something concrete.
A principal filtering applications is often searching for an exact license type and grade range before reading a single bullet. List your certification, the issuing state, and the grades or subjects it covers plainly, near the top. If you are certified in more than one state or have a certification in progress, say so and name the expected date.
Google Classroom, Seesaw, PowerSchool, i-Ready, a specific reading or math curriculum: these are not filler. A district running the same systems wants to see you already know them, and a district running different ones wants to see you have used something comparable. Vague phrases like "proficient with technology" tell a hiring committee nothing they can act on.
Long-term substitute positions, one-year contracts, and even a full semester of significant classroom responsibility are legitimate teaching experience and should be listed with the same detail as a permanent role. Leaving them off to avoid explaining a short tenure usually raises more questions than it answers.
One page for a new or early-career teacher. Two pages becomes reasonable once you have led programs, held a department chair or coaching role, or built a certification and PD history long enough that cutting it would remove information a hiring committee actually needs.
List every teaching role, but group grade levels and subjects concisely inside each entry rather than as a separate exhaustive list. A hiring manager for a specific opening cares most about the grades and subjects that match theirs; older or unrelated assignments can be summarized in one line.
State it plainly rather than leaving a blank year on the timeline. A career switcher should lead with the certification and any student teaching or classroom experience, and can frame relevant skills from the prior career, like presenting to groups or managing projects, as transferable rather than unrelated.
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