A free teacher résumé example, and the outcome lines that carry it
One complete teacher résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score are the product's own.
— cohort, intervention, outcome. one line each.

Teaching applications are read by people who have taught, and they can tell within two lines whether a candidate has run a department or watched one. This example is written out in full so you can read those lines, and then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser makes of them. The candidate is invented.
The example, in full
An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.
Beatrix Ellender
Secondary Teacher of English
Bristol, United Kingdom · [email protected] · +44 117 496 0231
Summary
Secondary English teacher with ten years in mixed-intake comprehensives, working on reading recovery, exam classes and the shared resource bank a department actually uses. Leads 9 teachers and 420 pupils across four year groups.
Experience
Head of English, Key Stage 4 · Marchfield Secondary School, Bristol · 2021 to present
- Led a department of 9 teachers and 420 pupils across 4 year groups and set the curriculum plan each of them taught.
- Raised the proportion of pupils reaching a grade 4 in English Language from 61% to 74% over 3 years of the new scheme.
- Rebuilt the Year 10 scheme of work into 6 units and cut the department's marking load by 4 hours a fortnight.
- Mentored 5 trainee teachers through their placement year and all 5 gained qualified teacher status within 12 months of arriving.
- Taught 18 lessons a week to 3 exam classes and marked 340 mock papers a year alongside the department's own.
Teacher of English · Kelvinbrook Community College, Swindon · 2018 to 2021
- Taught 7 classes a week across Key Stage 3 and 4, reaching 186 pupils, and tracked every one against target.
- Ran a reading recovery group of 18 pupils whose reading ages rose by an average of 14 months in one year.
- Introduced a whole-school vocabulary routine that 5 teams and 60 colleagues adopted within a single academic year of its trial.
- Marked 340 mock papers a year and moderated them with 3 partner schools across 12 sessions before every set of predicted grades.
- Rewrote 4 units of the Key Stage 3 curriculum and shared them with 9 colleagues through the department resource bank.
Teaching Assistant · Kelvinbrook Community College, Swindon · 2016 to 2018
- Supported 12 pupils with education, health and care plans across 20 lessons a week and recorded progress for each of them weekly.
- Ran a homework club of 25 pupils twice a week and lifted completion rates in the group from 54% to 82%.
- Prepared 200 lesson documents a year for 4 teachers and filed each of them in the shared bank for later use.
- Covered 30 lessons a term for absent colleagues and kept every class on the planned sequence of work that term.
- Completed the postgraduate certificate in education while teaching 12 lessons a week across 2 schools in the same academic year.
Education
PGCE Secondary English, BA English Literature · Northbank University, Manchester · 2012 to 2016
Skills
curriculum planning, GCSE English Language, GCSE English Literature, reading recovery, assessment and moderation, behaviour management, SEND support, department leadership, trainee mentoring, data tracking
Languages
English · native · French · B2
Certifications
Qualified Teacher Status · 2016
Cohort, intervention, outcome
A strong teaching line has three parts and usually only shows two. The example keeps all three where it can: a reading recovery group of eighteen pupils, a named intervention, and reading ages that rose by an average of fourteen months. The same pattern runs through the head of department lines, where the cohort is 420 pupils, the intervention is a rebuilt scheme of work, and the outcome is grade 4 attainment moving from 61% to 74% over three years.
Three years is stated on purpose. Attainment moves slowly and a single-year figure invites the question of what happened the year before. A range that covers your whole tenure is both more honest and harder to argue with.
The lines that are not about results
Two of the fifteen lines describe workload rather than outcomes: marking 340 mock papers a year, and cutting the department's marking load by four hours a fortnight. Those belong on a teacher's résumé because workload is the currency of the job, and a candidate who has reduced someone else's is describing leadership without using the word.
Mentoring is the third kind of line. Five trainees through a placement year is a countable fact about capacity, and it is the sort of thing that quietly disappears from a résumé written in a rush on a Sunday evening.
Skills for a teacher résumé, grouped
Beatrix's skills group into subject, pupils and leadership. Subject: curriculum planning, GCSE English Language and Literature, assessment and moderation. Pupils: reading recovery, behaviour management, SEND support, data tracking. Leadership: department leadership, trainee mentoring. A head teacher reads the leadership group as the sign of a middle leader.
Primary teachers group by key stage and subject areas instead. In the free builder, groups are optional: rename them, reorder them or switch them off.
From teaching assistant to head of department
A teaching assistant's résumé proves support in class. Beatrix's first role shows that. A teacher adds classes, cohorts and outcomes against starting points.
A head of department adds a team and a curriculum: results across the department, staff mentored, schemes of work rewritten. Qualified Teacher Status stays in certifications. The guide to quantifying achievements helps with results.
How it reads and scores
The import review reads 3 roles, 1 degree, 2 languages and 10 skills before anything reaches the editor. The ATS checker scored it 99 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 2 points short and achievement quality 1 point short. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied here, and the five it did not award are one check: bullet tense. How the reading and the score are produced is set out in the note on how these examples are made.
What to change for your own
Change the phase and the subject, then put your own cohorts in. Primary, further education and special schools all use this shape with different nouns. Keep qualified teacher status visible with a year on it. Keep one line about a whole-school contribution, because that is what separates a teacher from a head of department on paper.
If you are newly qualified, replace the head of department block with your placements and keep the cohort sizes; the student example carries two dated roles and two dated projects and shows how the projects take the weight. The design gallery holds 37 layouts, the data analyst example shows the same structure in a numbers job, and the project manager example shows it at the other end of an organisation.
Write yours beside it
Opens the builder with Beatrix's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Bridge design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.
Use this exampleCheck a résumé insteadQuestions
- Is Beatrix Ellender a real teacher
- No. She is invented for this page, and so are Marchfield Secondary School and Kelvinbrook Community College. Every figure was written to show a shape, and none of it describes a real school's results.
- Are exam results safe to put on a résumé
- Cohort-level results you were responsible for are ordinary practice and are what a head of department is hiring for. Individual pupils are not. The example names a proportion reaching a grade across three years and no pupil at all.
- What about a personal statement
- A teaching application usually asks for one separately, and it is a different document. The summary here is two sentences and names the phase, the subject and the work, which is what the top of a résumé is for.
- What did the checker score it
- 99 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 2 points short and achievement quality 1 point short. Fifteen action-led lines across three dated roles, all fifteen carrying a number the engine can read, and 442 readable words. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied. It measures the document's readability and evidence, and it is not an employer's applicant tracking system.
- Should the teaching assistant role stay
- Yes, and it now carries five lines like the two above it. It explains where the classroom experience started, and each of its five lines holds a count a head of department can picture: 12 pupils with plans, 25 in a homework club, 30 lessons covered a term.
- Which design is this rendered in
- Bridge, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe designs out of 37. The page named Vellum until the document was moved on 2026-09-14. The eight were chosen from a measurement taken that day: each exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics.
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.