Creativity is often a black box. We don’t know why ideas and inspirations happen, but we know that great art teachers stimulate them. Help your art teacher resume make its mark.
Dave Rygielski Career Expert
The art education children receive in schools is the best chance to foster creativity. Creativity is the ultimate expression of human potential. Each human is an unharnessed vessel—and each vessel needs its captain. An art teacher, like you.
A perfect art teacher resume must strike the right balance between professional and creative. You’re the expert on the arts. You’ve found the experts on the resumes.
In this guide you'll see:
So unlike any artist ever, you can get it right the first time.
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Sarah Green
Personal Info
26 Cobblecreek Rd, Waltham, MA 02451
Summary
An innovative, Boston University-educated Art Teacher with 4+ years of tenure in public schools. At Little Wood High School, teaching 489 students, seeing each at least once per week. Created a dynamic curriculum focused on independent thinking, self-expression and creation, in line with state teaching standards. Achieved 95%+ on quarterly program evaluations. Constantly encouraging students to be active, sending 17 students to the County Art Show in 2019, 2 of which won awards.
Experience
Art Teacher
Little Wood High School
Substitute Art Teacher
Waltham School District
Education
BFA/MA in Art Education with Initial License
Boston University, School of Visual Arts
Skills
Certifications
Let’s get your art teacher resume up to speed:
Artistic souls live in eternal chaos. An art teacher is not there to be an artist. They are there to harness the chaos, and create artists.
Radiate professionalism and organization skills at first glance by submitting a well-structured and thought-out art teacher resume. Here are some basic rules for formatting your resume the right way:
Once you have set the canvas for your art teacher resume, it’s time to get to work.
Sometimes, a piece of art strikes at first glance. Other pieces require a viewer to stare within for hours.
If your art teacher resume takes hours to fully grasp, principals will zone out like a five-year old reading “In Search of Lost Time.”
In other words, your art teacher resume profile must be a Hitchcockian earthquake. A short section such as a resume summary will save the reader skimming through your entire art teacher resume—by conveying your best attributes immediately and giving them a reason to keep on reading.
Good news is, standing out in a pile of resumes is not as hard as standing out in the world of art.
Most candidates will write about their current job responsibilities and tasks—you can skip ahead of the queue by writing about achievements on your resume, and quantifying the impact you make.
Just like this:
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Everyone knows the responsibilities of an art teacher. You, me, and the person reading your resume. Reciting them in your resume doesn’t prove you’ll make a good art teacher.
When writing about your experience in your art teacher resume, think about what you achieved. Think about how well, and on what scale did you do what you did? Use the highlights and proudest moments to star-stud your art teacher resume job descriptions.
Use powerful resume action words such as facilitated, mentored, implemented, developed. Take a look at these art teacher job description examples:
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For an art teacher resume that makes its mark:
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Written by Dave RygielskiDave is a career expert delivering a wide range of well-researched advice regarding the job hunting and application process. At ResumeLab, his data-driven resume and cover letter guides help readers capitalize on their potential.
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