Teacher CV example
In teaching, qualified status, training and pupil outcomes carry the weight. Your CV has to order them so the panel finds them in seconds.
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- Sector
- Education
- Template used
- Dublin
- ATS level
- ATS verified
- ATS keywords
- 5
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How the CV looks once laid out
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Rachel Donnelly
Secondary maths teacher with 9 years in the classroom
rachel.donnelly@mail.com · +353 87 123 4567 · Dublin · linkedin.com/in/rachel
Professional summary
Maths teacher with nine years across KS3, KS4 and A-level. I raised my groups' average grade by more than a full level and coordinate the school's intervention programme. QTS plus ongoing training in active methodologies and digital classrooms.
Experience
Teacher
Employer name · City · 2019 – Present
- Raised average GCSE maths attainment by a full grade across two years
- Coordinated an intervention plan for 60 pupils with an 88% pass rate
- Designed 40 schemes of work with competency-based assessment
Education
Qualification or certificate for the role
Training centre · Year
Skills
- Lesson planningAdvanced
- Assessment for learningAdvanced
- Cooperative learningAdvanced
- Form tutoring and parentsAdvanced
- Digital classroomAdvanced
- SEN supportAdvanced
Languages
- EnglishNative
- SpanishB1
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Professional headline
This is the line that decides whether they keep reading: a specific role and years of experience, never an adjective.
Secondary maths teacher with 9 years in the classroom
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Example professional summary
Three or four sentences with your specialism, one figure and your goal. It sits right under the headline.
Maths teacher with nine years across KS3, KS4 and A-level. I raised my groups' average grade by more than a full level and coordinate the school's intervention programme. QTS plus ongoing training in active methodologies and digital classrooms.
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Achievements that work in this role
Past-tense verb, what you did, measurable result. Three to five per role, strongest first.
- 01Raised average GCSE maths attainment by a full grade across two years
- 02Coordinated an intervention plan for 60 pupils with an 88% pass rate
- 03Designed 40 schemes of work with competency-based assessment
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Skills to include
Written as plain text: rating bars are invisible to automated filters.
- Lesson planning
- Assessment for learning
- Cooperative learning
- Form tutoring and parents
- Digital classroom
- SEN support
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ATS keywords
The terms filters search for in this role. Place them inside your experience, not in a list at the end.
- schemes of work
- assessment
- form tutor
- secondary
- QTS
Work them naturally into your experience — these are the terms screening software scans for.
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Tips for this CV
What separates a CV for this trade from a generic one.
- 01
Put your subject and QTS at the top — it's the first filter in education recruitment.
- 02
Quantify pupil impact (grades, pass rates, attendance), not just the subjects taught.
- 03
Group courses and certificates with hours and awarding body; panels score that detail.
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What a teacher CV is
Short definition, ready to quote.
A teacher CV is the one or two page document used to apply for a teacher role in education: it brings together the professional headline, the profile summary, experience with measurable results and the competencies the trade expects you to evidence, such as Lesson planning and Assessment for learning. Unlike a generic CV, it is ordered around what the applicant tracking system and the hiring manager look for in a teacher: the words used in the advert and the numbers of the actual job.
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Keywords and where to place them
Each term works best in a specific place in the document. Repeating them all at the end scores nothing.
| Keyword | Where to place it |
|---|---|
| schemes of work | In the professional headline |
| assessment | In the profile summary |
| form tutor | Inside an achievement with a figure |
| secondary | In the skills list |
| QTS | In training or certifications |
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How this teacher CV gets through the filters
What the example above does right, point by point.
- The headline reads «Secondary maths teacher with 9 years in the classroom»: the job title (teacher) appears literally in the first line, not as a creative synonym.
- The trade's keywords —schemes of work, assessment, form tutor— sit inside the experience and summary, where the filter reads them in context.
- Every achievement carries its figure. «Raised average GCSE maths attainment by a full grade across two years» is the pattern to copy: volume, timeframe and result.
- Skills such as Lesson planning, Assessment for learning, Cooperative learning are written as plain text, never as rating bars or stars, which no parser can read.
- The Dublin template is single-column and rated ATS verified, so the sections come out in order.
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What hiring managers look for in a teacher
The three points that separate two candidates in this trade.
Key stage, subject and groups
Primary, secondary and post-16 are different jobs. Give the key stage, the subject and the year groups you taught, with class and pupil numbers: “KS4, four groups, 112 pupils”.
QTS and status
State your degree, your route to QTS, your subject specialism and your early-career teacher status. It is the administrative filter for the sector.
Outcomes and practice
Give what can be measured honestly: progress against school averages, attendance in your groups, intervention outcomes, and the platforms you used.
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Common mistakes on a teacher CV
The ones that repeat in this role, each with its fix.
- 01
Writing “taught lessons” with no key stage
One sentence covering primary and sixth form leaves the CV unusable, because hiring is by subject and key stage. Without those, a head of department cannot place you.
- 02
Leaving out form tutoring and parental contact
Tutoring is half the real job: monitoring, parents' evenings, liaising with the SEND coordinator and intervention plans. It is what a deputy head values most and almost nobody writes.
- 03
Not mentioning SEND
Differentiation, education and health care plans, and work with the SEND coordinator are genuine requirements in every school, not filler lines.
- 04
A supporting statement that says nothing
Schools read the letter as closely as the CV, mapped to the person specification. Generic enthusiasm loses to two paragraphs of concrete classroom practice.
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What a teacher earns
So you can tell whether an advert is at market rate before applying.
- Usual range
- Main pay range typically £31,000-£43,000, with London weighting and responsibility payments on top
- What moves the figure
- The pay range, responsibility payments and London banding set the figure; independent schools run their own scales.
- Where the figure comes from
- Ranges observed in UK teaching adverts through 2026 against published pay ranges.
Frequently asked
Questions about a teacher CV
- What do I need to teach in a UK secondary school?
- A degree in or close to the subject and qualified teacher status, plus completion of your induction for a permanent post. State your route and your induction year explicitly.
- How should a teaching CV be structured?
- Two pages: current role with key stages, groups and outcomes, then earlier posts, then education, then training. Schools also expect a supporting letter mapped to the person specification.
- Does supply or tutoring work count?
- Yes. Supply proves adaptability across schools, and tutoring proves subject knowledge and progress. Describe both with pupil numbers, subject and results.
- Should I include safeguarding training?
- Yes, with the level and the year, plus your background-check status. It is a condition of employment and having it visible shortens pre-employment checks.
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