A free teaching assistant résumé example, with the interventions named
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— group size, sessions a week, months of progress.

Teaching assistants do the most specific work in a school and describe it in the vaguest language on a page. This example is written out in full so you can read the specific version, then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser stores. The candidate is invented.
The example, in full
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Priyanka Hollinsworth-Bemba
Teaching Assistant
Sheffield, United Kingdom · [email protected] · +44 114 496 0324
Summary
Higher level teaching assistant with six years in primary schools, running phonics and numeracy interventions for small groups, supporting four pupils with education, health and care plans and covering lessons across Years 3 to 6.
Experience
Higher Level Teaching Assistant · Brambledown Primary School, Sheffield · 2022 to present
- Supported a class of 30 pupils and covered 6 lessons a week as the named cover assistant across 3 full school years.
- Ran daily phonics groups of 6 pupils, and their reading ages rose by an average of 11 months over a single academic year.
- Delivered one-to-one support to 4 pupils with education, health and care plans across 25 lessons a week, and recorded every agreed target.
- Trained 3 new assistants on the reading intervention programme, and all 3 ran their own groups of 6 pupils within 2 terms.
- Prepared 120 sets of differentiated materials a term for 2 class teachers and 30 pupils, and marked 200 pieces of work each week.
Teaching Assistant · Coldwell Rise Primary, Rotherham · 2019 to 2022
- Supported 2 class teachers across 60 pupils in Years 3 and 4, and covered 4 lessons a week during staff absence.
- Ran a numeracy intervention for 12 pupils over 4 sessions a week, and 10 of them reached the expected standard by July.
- Led lunchtime clubs for 40 pupils across 3 terms and recorded attendance, behaviour and parental consent for every one of those sessions.
- Recorded reading assessments for 60 pupils each half term and passed the results to 2 teachers before every parents evening of the year.
- Handled 30 playground duties a term and resolved 9 in every 10 behaviour incidents without taking a pupil to the head teacher.
Teaching Assistant Apprentice · Coldwell Rise Primary, Rotherham · 2017 to 2019
- Completed the Level 3 apprenticeship over 24 months while supporting 30 pupils a day in a mixed Year 2 and 3 class.
- Prepared 80 classroom resources a term and set up 3 practical sessions a week for a teacher and 30 pupils.
- Listened to 90 readers a week across 3 classes and logged every session against the school's own reading record for the year.
- Escorted 4 school trips a year for up to 60 pupils and completed the risk assessment paperwork for each of those visits.
- Covered 2 lessons a week in the final year of the apprenticeship and followed the planning that 4 different class teachers left.
Education
Level 3 Supporting Teaching and Learning · Attercliffe College, Sheffield · 2017 to 2019
Skills
phonics interventions, numeracy support, SEND support, behaviour support, small group teaching, lesson cover, safeguarding, assessment recording, parent communication, club leadership
Languages
English · native · Hindi · native
Certifications
Paediatric first aid · 2025
Safeguarding level 2 · 2025
An intervention has three numbers
Group size, frequency and outcome. A daily phonics group of six pupils with reading ages up an average of eleven months. A numeracy intervention for twelve pupils, four sessions a week. Those are complete descriptions of work that most applications reduce to "supported small groups".
Progress in months is the right unit in primary education, and it is the one a head teacher will compare against their own data. It also names no child, which matters on a document that will be read by several people.
Cover and support are separate claims
Six lessons a week as named cover. Four pupils with education, health and care plans supported across twenty-five lessons a week. One is a teaching responsibility and the other is specialist support, and a school hiring a higher level assistant is looking for both.
The training line is the third: three new assistants trained on the reading intervention. A school that has asked somebody to train colleagues has already decided they are good at the job.
Skills for a teaching assistant résumé, grouped
Priyanka's skills group into learning, support and school. Learning: phonics interventions, numeracy support, small group teaching, lesson cover, assessment recording. Support: SEND support, behaviour support, safeguarding. School and families: parent communication, club leadership. A head teacher reads the intervention and SEND items first.
Secondary teaching assistants often group by subject instead, so rename the groups to fit the school. In the free builder, groups are optional: rename them, reorder them or switch them off.
From apprentice to higher level teaching assistant
An apprentice's résumé proves steady support in class: groups supported, routines kept, training completed. The Coldwell Rise roles start there. A teaching assistant adds interventions with starting points, length and progress.
A higher level teaching assistant adds cover and leadership: lessons covered, interventions designed, colleagues trained. Keep cover and support as separate claims. The certifications guide covers first aid and safeguarding lines.
How it reads and scores
The ATS checker scored it 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 3 points short and readable volume 2 points short. The second reading is the writing check, which asks how the document is written rather than what a parser can find in it, and it scored 95: 91 of the 96 points that applied. How our examples are made explains the import review and the scoring behind these figures.
What this example leaves off
No pupil names, no photographs from a classroom and no descriptions of any individual child's needs. A head teacher reads a page that describes a child as a safeguarding concern rather than as evidence of experience.
Long training lists are left off too. Three current certificates with their years and a level 3 qualification carry the application; a page of half-day courses reads as padding around a thin core.
What to change for your own
Change the phase and the specialism. Early years, secondary, special schools and one-to-one support all use this shape with different interventions. Then put in your own group sizes, session counts, progress figures and plan numbers.
Keep both certificates current and dated. Keep the club or lunchtime line, because it is evidence of the part of the job nobody is timetabled for. The design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the teacher example, the librarian example and the research assistant example sit beside this one.
Write yours beside it
Opens the builder with Priyanka's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Placard design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.
Use this exampleCheck a résumé insteadQuestions
- Is Priyanka Hollinsworth-Bemba a real person
- No. She is invented for this page, and so are Brambledown Primary School and Coldwell Rise Primary. The figures show a shape and describe no real pupil or school.
- How should interventions be described
- Group size, frequency and progress. A phonics group of six pupils, daily, with reading ages up an average of eleven months, is a complete description that names no child.
- Do safeguarding certificates belong on the page
- Yes, with years, in their own certifications section. The example carries two of them, paediatric first aid and safeguarding level 2, and the reader kept both with their years. A school checks them before anything else.
- What did the checker score it
- 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 3 points short and readable volume 2 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 95 × 40% for content. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied, and the five points it withheld are the tense rule.
- Is cover work worth mentioning
- For a higher level assistant it is the difference in the job title. Six lessons a week as named cover is a responsibility, and it is what a head teacher is paying the higher rate for.
- Which design is this rendered in
- Placard, one of the eight layouts these examples were moved onto on 2026-09-14. This page used to argue for Duotone, which is outside that set, and the document was moved rather than the paragraph quietly dropped. Of the 37 layouts in the gallery, 24 export a PDF whose text layer scores what the pasted text scores, in a single column with the reading order kept and no graphics; the eight came out of that set.
Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 22 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.