I am updating my resume and I don’t want to use the traditional style. Two reasons for this:
It looks soooooo 1980s
I have been teaching for almost 3 decades. The traditional style seems inefficient for what I need.
Mrs. Cad has a great style but I’m afraid it would scare off most administrators as being too radical of a style.
I hope this thread grows organically and I can throw out details of my career as needed but to start what are some general ideas you would have for a high school teacher resume applicable to math or special education. I expect the two resumes would be slightly different in content but overall share a lot of the same format.
Also, I want to put forth a small portfolio of me as a teacher to use in interviews. A lot of emphasis is on teaching demonstrations so I just want something that will result in all else being equal, we are picking Saint Cad because …
Ive interviewed a lit of teachers, including math teachers. In general, portfolios work best as teaching aids, when you want to illustrate an answer to a question.
Enthusiasm for math is probably the key thing we look for.
PS Do you want a job in Dallas? Im at the best school to teach math in the world (literally) and we have a math opening right now. Cert would not be a problem.
We are staying in Northern Colorado for right now because of our granddaughter. I can guaranty I will not work in Houston because of the superintendent. I worked in Colorado Springs with him as superintendent and teachers still have PTSD from that experience (not exaggerating). How’s life in Dallas now that he’s gone?
That’s what I was thinking. Things like a lesson plan, unit plan (maybe), sample activities that show how I approach a lesson. I especially want to put in a lesson plan as that seems to be a lost art … that is assuming a teacher makes lesson plans which is rare.
Dallas is a large urban district wirh all the problems you expect, but we try hard and there are some amazing opportunities. Im serious this is the best school in the world for math: 70% low SES, 100% take calculus, 90% pass AB or BC AP exams.
I know for a fact if I take a job in Texas, Mrs Cad will respond with, “Bye.”
And that school might not be a good fit for me. I love to work in urban schools but with the high-risk non-traditional learners.
I remember, hence my honest question of how you all are doing. Sounds like your school is doing good . When we share a beer together, we need to share war stories.
I’d v love to hear how they teach students to excel in math. So many kids feel like they can’t grasp the higher concepts. I think they need more time practice and tutoring.
Its a program of choice, so the ones we get love math.
We dedicate a lot of time to it. A quarter of our Freshmen come to Algebra camp the summer before they start, to redo all of A1 over 3 weeks. 3/8 classes Freshmen take are math: for our “lowest” kids, that means they have 90 minutes of A2 each day, and 90 minutes of geometry every other day. Calc AB is 90 minutes every day for a year. Tutoring is expected for anyobe who fails a test.
The most important part is that out of 10k 9th graders in the system, these are the 125 who love math the most.
90% to 93% of people do not think mathematically so the more abstract we get, the more we lose them. However, put it into applications and it works. My financial algebra course taught
Simple & compounded interest and the power of compounding
How variables of down, time and principal affect paying off an amortized loan (house and car)
How insurance works
How paychecks are calculated
There is a lot of high-school level math buried into those topics
Currently for statistics (not AP Stats) I teach students how to collect data, how to analyze that data and how to present that data to professors/classmates/managers/departments/clients etc.