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This page shows a full Classroom Teacher resume with notes on each section, alongside 14,484 openings hiring now.

Open jobs

14,484

Most openings

New York

Median pay

$47,000

The example

A classroom teacher resume, in full.

Resume

Marcus Ellery

Classroom Teacher — Upper Elementary and Middle Grades

Lakewood, Colorado

Professional Summary

Classroom teacher with eight years across fifth grade and middle school English, licensed for kindergarten through grade nine. Moved between an elementary and a middle school in the same district and now leads the vertical planning team that connects them.

Experience

English Teacher, Grades 6-7

Bear Creek Middle School • Lakewood, CO

Aug 2021 - Present

  • Teach four sections of English across sixth and seventh grade, plus a literacy support block.
  • Chair the vertical planning team that aligned writing expectations between the feeder elementary and this building, which cut the regrading of incoming sixth-grade work substantially.
  • Ran the department's move to a common rubric.

Fifth Grade Teacher

Green Mountain Elementary School • Lakewood, CO

Aug 2017 - Jun 2021

  • Taught self-contained fifth grade for four years, all subjects.
  • Took the class through the district's first year on a new maths programme and wrote the pacing notes the grade level still uses.
  • Coordinated the fifth-grade transition visits to the middle school.

Education

University of Colorado Denver

Master of Arts • Curriculum and Instruction

Aug 2019 - May 2021

Colorado State University

Bachelor of Arts • English

Aug 2013 - May 2017

Skills

Writing instructionGuided readingVertical alignmentCommon rubric designStandards-based gradingLiteracy interventionClassroom managementCurriculum pacingPeer mentoring

Certifications

Colorado Professional Teacher License — Elementary Education, Kindergarten through Grade Six

Colorado Department of Education

Jun 2017

Colorado Endorsement — English Language Arts, Grades Seven through Twelve

Colorado Department of Education

Jul 2021

Section by section

What each part of this resume is doing.

Summary

The summary names the grade bands taught rather than a teaching philosophy, because the first question about any Classroom Teacher is which room they can be placed in.

Experience

Each entry gives one outcome instead of a duty list. A Classroom Teacher does broadly the same job everywhere, so what distinguishes an application is what changed for the students in front of you.

Skills

Skills name the programmes and assessments by title. A generic Classroom Teacher skills list reads as filler, and a principal is scanning for what you can start using immediately.

credentials

The licence is listed with its grade span and issuing state, since a Classroom Teacher outside the band a posting requires cannot be hired regardless of experience.

Before you apply

What K-12 hiring committees look for

A panel hiring a Classroom Teacher is deciding whether you can hold a room and move a group of students, in that order. Range across grades helps when a school is filling more than one vacancy.

There are 14,484 open Classroom Teacher roles, concentrated in New York, with a median of $47,000.

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Common questions

Writing a classroom teacher resume.

Grade bands, the programmes you have taught, your licence, and one result per role. There are 14,484 open Classroom Teacher roles to match it against.

One page early on, two once you have taught several grades. A Classroom Teacher with range should show it rather than compress it away.

The licence line does, because bands and reciprocity differ. Lead with the state that issued yours, since most Classroom Teacher postings sit in New York.