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Middle School Teacher resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what middle school teachers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most middle school teachers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Middle school teacher working with students in years 6 to 9, with a focus on the transition into secondary-style learning. Registered with the relevant state or territory teacher authority and accredited at Proficient level against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. Strengths in curriculum planning across core subjects, classroom routines that hold up with early adolescents, and pastoral care that keeps students connected to school.
Key skills
- Teaching and instruction across core subject areas
- Curriculum and lesson design aligned to the Australian Curriculum
- Classroom and behaviour management with early adolescent cohorts
- Student assessment, moderation and reporting
- Pastoral care and student wellbeing
- Differentiation for students with additional learning needs and EAL/D learners
- Google Classroom
- Microsoft Teams
- SEQTA
- Moodle
- Canvas LMS
- Written communication with parents, carers and colleagues
- Empathy and interpersonal care
Experience: example bullet points
- Planned and delivered lessons across core subjects for a year 7 cohort, establishing a weekly routine that helped students adjust to multiple teachers and rooms.
- Built a transition program with feeder primary teachers covering literacy and numeracy expectations, which reduced the number of year 7 students needing catch-up support in first term.
- Managed classroom behaviour using consistent, agreed routines, cutting the number of students leaving lessons for time out and keeping more of the class engaged in set work.
- Recorded assessment and wrote report comments in SEQTA, so parent teacher interviews ran from shared evidence rather than recollection.
- Ran a pastoral care group of around 25 students, tracking attendance and wellbeing and referring concerns through the year coordinator and school wellbeing team.
- Wrote Individual Learning Plans with the learning support team and delivered the adjustments in mainstream classes, including for students with disability funded through the NCCD.
- Wrote Individual Learning Plans with the learning support team and implemented adjustments in mainstream classes, including for students with disability funded through the NCCD.
- Contacted parents and carers by phone and email each fortnight, resolving several attendance and engagement concerns before they escalated to formal meetings.
Education
Bachelor of Education (Middle Years) or a bachelor degree plus a Master of Teaching (Secondary), accredited by AITSL, followed by registration with the state or territory teacher authority and accreditation at Proficient level.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- AITSL
- state teacher registration
- Working with Children Check
- Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
- Proficient accreditation
- ACARA Australian Curriculum
- NAPLAN
- SEQTA
- Compass
- Sentral
- Google Classroom
- Microsoft Teams
- Moodle
- Canvas LMS
- pastoral care
- mandatory reporting
- Child Safe Standards
- NCCD
- Individual Learning Plans
- EAL/D
- differentiation
- anaphylaxis and asthma management
- First Aid
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.