Writing a resume for a teaching job

The person reading is not evaluating your career. They are answering one question: can this person walk into the specific class I need covered. Everything that helps them answer it goes near the top, and everything else goes under it or comes out.

That means the first thing on the page, after your name, should say what you teach and to whom. Not an objective statement, not a paragraph about your passion for education. Those tell the reader nothing they can act on, and every resume in the stack has one.

• •Ages and levels, stated plainly. Primary, secondary, adults, A2 to B1, and so on. A school hiring for fourth grade is scanning for whether you have taught children.
• •The books and programs you have used. Naming the series you taught from is the single most recognizable thing on a teaching resume here, because the coordinator knows exactly what that means about your classroom. It is also the detail most people leave out.
• •Exam preparation. Cambridge, IELTS, TOEFL, placement testing. Schools that need it need it badly and have trouble finding it, so put it where it is visible rather than buried in a skills list.
• •Contact hours a week. It tells a coordinator the scale you are used to and whether you can take a full load, and almost nobody includes it.
• •Your English level, with evidence. Everyone writes fluent and it carries no information. A certification, a degree taught in English, or years lived abroad carries some.
• •One concrete result per job. A pass rate, a course you built, a group you moved up a level. Specific beats impressive.

• •Your cédula number, your full home address and your date of birth. The neighborhood and city is enough, and the rest is identity data a stranger does not need to decide whether to call you.
• •Marital status and number of children. It is still common on resumes here and it has never once helped anyone get hired.
• •References with their phone numbers printed. Write available on request, and ask the person first when someone actually asks.
• •An objective statement, a skills bar chart, and anything rated out of five stars. A level rated by the person claiming it means nothing.
• •Jobs from more than about ten years ago, unless they are teaching jobs that still say something about you.

A photo is conventional here and harmless, so include one if you want. Just know that it is not what gets you the call, and a bad one can cost you. If you use it, use a plain, recent, well-lit head and shoulders.

• •One page if you have under five years of experience. Two is the ceiling.
• •Send a PDF, never a Word file, so it opens the way you built it.
• •Name the file with your own name, not resume_final_v3. It sits in a folder with thirty others.
• •Reverse chronological order. Most recent job first, always.
• •Write it in English for an English teaching post, even when the ad is in Spanish. It is the one case where the resume is also a work sample.
• •Read it out loud before sending. A typo on an English teacher's resume is a different kind of typo.

Plain text so you can paste it into anything. Replace the guidance in each block with your own content and delete what does not apply.

FULL NAME
English Teacher · City, Dominican Republic
Phone · Email

PROFILE
Two lines. What you teach, to which ages and levels, for how long,
and one thing you are specifically good at.

EXPERIENCE
Job title
School or institute, City. Month Year to Month Year
- Levels and ages taught, and the books or program used.
- Contact hours a week.
- One concrete result: exam pass rates, a course you designed,
  a group you took from one level to the next.

[repeat, most recent first]

EDUCATION
Degree, institution, year.

CERTIFICATIONS
Name, issuing body, year. Include in-progress ones with the date
you expect to finish.

ENGLISH LEVEL
State it and say how it is evidenced: a certification, a degree
taught in English, years living or studying abroad.

ALSO
Exam preparation you can teach, software or platforms you use,
other languages, availability.

A resume only works when you already know a job exists. Most teaching jobs here are filled before they are ever advertised, through a coordinator who needs someone by Monday and asks around.

That is what the teacher directory on this site is for. Your profile is visible to verified schools and nobody else by default: not in Google search results, not to other teachers, and not to your current director. Your resume stays private even then, and is readable only by a school you have actually applied to.