How to Gain More Results from Your Teaching Cover Letter

Your teaching cover letter is your chance to make your personality shine for potential schools to know more about the authentic you. It’s the first contact you will have with a school district, making it imperative you make an excellent impression by submitting a cover letter that instantly captures the recipient’s attention.

You don’t get a second chance.

When your profession is educating students, helping them to grow and learn, your cover letter can be of utmost importance because it shows your passion for teaching.

Convey your passion for shaping young people’s minds and for helping them succeed socially and academically in your cover letter. Communicating you are a successful and talented educator. Engaging content makes the person reading your cover letter want to learn more about you by continuing to your resume.

Design and Writing Tips When Submitting Your Teaching Cover Letter

Cover Letter Visual Presentation: 

The first thing someone will notice about your cover letter before they even read the content is its looks. Create your letter using standard font size and style. Although you may want to show your expertise with writing, keep the cover letter concise and straightforward.

The cover letter design and format should match your resume in the font, style, and formatting. Attention to detail is important. Keep a copy on your computer to tailor it to each teaching position you wish to apply for.

Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation: 

Submitting an application letter containing spelling or grammatical errors will make the interviewer think you didn’t care enough to proofread your letter before sending it. Even if you think you are good at writing and have few or no mistakes, always have your letter proofread. Someone else may see errors you overlooked. Don’t use large or unusual words. Keep it plain, simple, and to the point. The easier they can read your letter, the better chance you have against the competition.

Keep Content Relevant:

It’s important to plan your cover letter, so it flows well and makes complete sense. Make a detailed list of what you want to include in your letter, and organize it logically. The interviewer is not looking for a personal profile, so don’t include many personal items.

List only what is relevant to the job. Look at it from their point of view. If you were a recruiter interviewing for this position, what would you be looking for in a teacher?

If you are changing careers to teaching, you will need to communicate your transferable skills and the reason for the transition. 

Include work history, education, achievements, accomplishments, and qualifications in your resume and application form. These don’t need to be all included in your cover letter. Incorporate a couple of individual career accomplishments, related strengths, or relevant characteristics you possess.

Items to include in your teaching cover letter:

Have an explanation of why you chose this school:

Explain why you chose this school over others. If you have done your research, show that you know about this school’s vision, values, and functions. It will make a bigger impression on the interviewer.

What you can contribute to the school community:

Explain what you think you have in experience, knowledge, and methods that would benefit the school. Explain why you think your experience and expertise fit the description of the type of teacher they want.

Are you innovative?

Can you communicate you are innovative, and you can use your ideas to work? Some schools can be very choosy when picking a new teacher, making it imperative to show you are innovative. There will be a minimum of qualifications and experience needed; the reader will be looking for extra attributes. Can you show them you have a unique selling point? Give examples of how your innovations have helped advance student learning or enhance your past positions’ teaching methods.

Extra Skills are a Plus:

Have you done any coaching, or do you play a musical instrument like the piano?

What experience do you have organizing groups?

Do you have any unique skills that would benefit the school?

Any examples you can give that show extra beneficial skills will help your name be on the top of the candidates’ list.

Take the time to review sample application letters and resumes on our website to show the job search documents we create.