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Social Studies Teacher cover letter example

This page shows a full Social Studies Teacher cover letter, marked up with what a hiring committee reads each paragraph for.

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New York

The letter

A social studies teacher cover letter, marked up.

Dear Ms. Trombley,

I am applying for the Social Studies Teacher position at Copper Hills High School. I teach government, economics and world history, and I am writing because your posting lists economics as a course you are currently unable to offer.

I hold the economics endorsement that most of my department does not, which is the only reason the course runs at my current school. I took it on in my second year when the previous teacher retired and the section was about to be cut.

A course that has not run for a year is harder to restart than one that has always been offered, because students stop planning for it. Copper Hills is far enough into that gap that rebuilding enrollment will matter as much as teaching the class.

I hold an Arizona Standard Secondary Certificate in History for grades six through twelve, with an Economics subject endorsement.

I would like to talk about how you are thinking about restarting economics, and whether it would sit in the same timetable block as government. I am glad to meet at any time.

Sincerely, Marcus Oyelaran

Before you send it

What hiring committees look for

A committee hiring a Social Studies Teacher reads for breadth of endorsement. Which courses you can legally cover often decides the appointment before anything else does.

There are 150 open Social Studies Teacher roles, concentrated in New York.

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Common questions

Writing a social studies teacher cover letter.

Every course your endorsement covers, and which of them you have actually taught. Open Social Studies Teacher roles on the board right now: 150.

Because a small department needs one person to cover several courses. A Social Studies Teacher holding an extra subject endorsement can make a timetable work that otherwise does not.

If you are endorsed for them, lead with it. Those courses are the hardest for a Social Studies Teacher posting in New York to staff, and saying so early gets the letter read.