Customizing Your Resume for Teaching Positions

This book is a readable guide for new and experienced candidates seeking K-12 teaching positions. Educational administrators are interested in resumes that arouse their interest and contain specific information related to the teaching profession. The author, with his extensive background in educational services, bases his suggestions on feedback from key administrators responsible for hiring new teachers. This guide includes an outline to help create a customized resume, using resources such as: a description of essential components, easy-to-use resume worksheet, power phrases, 10 common mistakes, resume examples, and a checklist for final inspection. The author covers all major subject areas and discusses the science of resume writing as an understanding of essential components, while the art of resume writing is the ability to creatively arrange and state experience and goals.