Teacher applications are scored against a person specification. Phase, subject and measurable pupil impact are the three things a panel looks for.
Two-page layout with clear section rules — room for training, roles, responsibilities and CPD without crowding.
Teaching applications are unusual in how formal the process is: a person specification, a scored shortlisting, and often a lesson observation. The CV or application form is read against those criteria, not as a free-form document.
The mistake candidates make is describing activity — "planned and delivered lessons" — instead of impact, which is what the scorer is looking for.
These are the terms a hiring team filters on. Include the ones that are true of your work — our checker tells you which are missing, it never inserts them for you.
Three facts in the first three lines: what phase you teach, what subject, and your qualification status. In the UK, QTS status is the first thing a panel checks; in the US, state certification and endorsements do the same job.
Every teacher plans lessons; the scorer already assumes that. What distinguishes a strong application is evidence that pupils learned more because you were there — with the honest caveat that cohort factors matter.
Copy the essential criteria into a scratch document and write one line of evidence against each. If a criterion has no evidence, that is a genuine gap — either find the closest true experience or accept that this application is a stretch.
In the UK this evidence usually goes in the supporting statement rather than the CV; the CV still needs to be consistent with it.
Your previous career is an asset in the classroom and a credibility signal for the panel. Keep it on the page but compress it: one scope line, two outcome bullets, then move on to your training year, which is what the panel is assessing.
US: Letter, one page for early career, certification and endorsements prominent, no photo. UK: A4, two pages, personal statement first, QTS and DBS status stated, British spelling (organise, behaviour, programme).
In the US, teaching resumes often include a short "professional development" line; in the UK, CPD belongs in the supporting statement or the education section.
Each of these is common in this role specifically, and each one costs a real application.
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