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Primary School Teacher resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what primary 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 primary school teachers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Primary school teacher experienced in planning and delivering curriculum across literacy, numeracy, science and social studies for students in Years K to 6. Skilled at adapting lessons for students with disability, giftedness or English as an additional language, and at building trust with students, colleagues and families. Focused on running a calm, inclusive classroom where every student can make progress.
Key skills
- Curriculum and lesson design
- Classroom and behaviour management
- Student assessment and reporting
- Pastoral care and wellbeing
- Differentiated instruction for diverse learners
- Seqta and Compass learning management systems
- Microsoft Office / Google Workspace
- Interactive whiteboards (Smartboard, Promethean)
- Assessment tracking software
Experience: example bullet points
- Planned and delivered weekly literacy and numeracy lessons for a full class of K to 6 students, aligning content to the Australian Curriculum year-level outcomes
- Managed classroom behaviour using a whole-school positive behaviour framework, keeping disruptions low and maintaining a settled learning environment
- Adapted lesson content and assessment tasks for students with disability and English as an additional language, working from individual learning plans
- Assessed student work through formative and summative tasks and reported progress to parents each semester via written reports and parent-teacher interviews
- Collaborated with learning support staff, specialist teachers and families to coordinate wellbeing and learning goals for students needing extra support
Education
Bachelor of Education (Primary), or a Bachelor degree followed by a Master of Teaching (Primary), leading to registration with the relevant state or territory teacher regulatory authority such as NESA, VIT or QCT.
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.
- NESA
- VIT
- QCT
- AITSL Professional Standards
- Working With Children Check
- NAPLAN
- Seqta
- Compass
- Individual Learning Plan
- Differentiated instruction
- Australian Curriculum
- K-6 teaching
- Formative and summative assessment
- Classroom management
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.