Teaching postings list a certification, a grade band and a subject among the first requirements, so your resume opens with those three facts, worded the way your certificate words them. These prompts get an AI to structure the rest of your classroom work — curriculum, interventions, clubs, mentoring — without letting it invent a score you never reported.
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State the certificate, do not summarize it — Give the AI your certification title, issuing state, grade band and endorsements, and ask it to reproduce that string without paraphrase. Left to itself it will turn a K-6 certificate into something like elementary education specialist, which is not a credential anyone issued you.
Describe the classroom with the numbers you have — Class size, sections taught, grade levels, self-contained or co-taught, and the share of your roster on IEPs or learning English. Ask the AI to build role context from what you provide and to insert [X] anywhere you have not supplied a figure yet.
Ask for outcomes wider than test data — Curriculum you wrote that other teachers adopted, an intervention block you ran, a club or team you started, new-teacher mentoring, a grant you wrote, a family-engagement change that stuck. Prompt for these as their own bullets so a principal sees range rather than a single score line.
Block the score invention explicitly — Tell the AI in the prompt: do not state growth percentages, proficiency rates or pass rates unless I give them to you — ask me for them instead. Testing data is the part of a teacher resume that gets checked, and an AI will happily produce a figure that reads perfectly and came from nowhere.
3 prompts to copy
Every prompt ends with the same rules: use only what you give it, and mark a missing number with a placeholder instead of guessing one.
Teaching summary that leads with your certification
When your summary opens with "passionate educator" and a principal still has to scroll to find out what you are certified to teach
What to have ready
•Your certificate text — issuing state, certificate type, each endorsement area with its grade band, expiration
•What you teach now — grade band, subject, setting, class size or caseload, curriculum and platforms
•One or two things you did last year that you can evidence
Write the professional summary for my teaching resume. Use only what I paste.
My certification, copied from the certificate:
[PASTE — issuing state, certificate or license type, each endorsement area with its grade band, expiration date]
What I teach now, in my own words:
- Grade band and subject: [for example, 7th and 8th grade English Language Arts]
- Setting: [for example, co-taught inclusion, self-contained, departmentalized, resource]
- Class size or caseload: [for example, 5 sections of 28, or a caseload of 19 IEPs]
- Curriculum and platforms I use: [for example, the reading program my district adopted, the LMS, the gradebook system]
Two things I did last year that I can evidence:
[PASTE — include any figure I have, and write "no figure" where I do not have one]
Rules:
- Open with the certification and the grade band, stated exactly as my certificate reads. If it says "Middle Grades English Language Arts 5-9", do not shorten that to "ELA teacher" and do not widen it to K-12.
- Name only the endorsements I pasted. Do not add one because it commonly travels with mine, and do not name a curriculum or platform I did not list.
- Three or four sentences. The second names my setting and my load. The third carries one piece of evidence from what I gave you.
- No adjective any teacher could claim — passionate, dedicated, student-centered. If a sentence would be true of every teacher in my building, cut it.
- Where a figure would strengthen a sentence and I wrote "no figure", leave [X] in place and tell me what to look up. Do not supply the number.
Last, tell me which grade bands my pasted endorsements actually cover, quoting the certificate wording for each. If I ask for a version aimed at a band outside them, say plainly that my certificate does not cover it and ask me what I want to do, rather than writing a summary that implies I am certified for it.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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Ask it to reread the summary as a hiring principal skimming a stack of applications, and to name the one question it still needs answered before scheduling you.
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When your only number is a state test score, or you have no numbers at all and your bullets read like the standards you were handed
What to have ready
•Your current bullets, or a plain list of what you did last year
•Any figures you can verify — gradebook, rosters, attendance reports, IEP progress monitoring, club sign-ups, PD sign-in sheets, grant awards
•Your grade band, subject, setting and class size or caseload
Help me find the real numbers in my teaching work. Ask first, write second.
What I did:
[PASTE — bullets, or a plain list of last year's work]
Figures I can verify right now:
[PASTE — anything from a gradebook, roster, attendance report, IEP progress monitoring, club sign-up sheet, PD sign-in sheet or grant award. Write "none yet" if I have not looked.]
My context: [grade band, subject, setting, class size or caseload]
Step 1. Interview me. Ask up to 10 questions that could surface a countable fact I already have and did not think to mention. Go well beyond test scores: students taught per day, sections, caseload size, IEP or 504 meetings led, attendance or referrals in my own room, course pass rate, retakes, students moved between MTSS tiers, units I wrote that others adopted, colleagues I coached, student teachers I mentored, club or team roster growth, families contacted and how, professional development I delivered, grants or materials I brought in. Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer.
Step 2. Once I have answered, rewrite my bullets using only the figures I gave you. Put the number where a reader will see it and name what it counts — 5 sections of 28, not "large classes".
Step 3. For every bullet where a number would help and I do not have one, write the bullet with a bracketed placeholder such as [X students] or [X percentage points], and tell me exactly where to find that figure — which report, which system, which colleague. Do not fill it in, and do not tell me what a typical value would be.
Step 4. Flag anything I claimed that a principal could not verify by calling my school, and show me how to reword it so it is checkable.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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Come back once you have looked the figures up, paste them in, and ask it to put the strongest one in the first bullet of each role.
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Before you send a resume where most lines describe work every teacher holding your certificate is already required to do
What to have ready
•Your full resume
•The grade band, subject and setting for each role it lists
•The posting you are aiming at, if you have one
Review my teaching resume the way a hiring principal would. Do not rewrite it yet.
My resume:
[PASTE]
Grade band, subject and setting for each role listed:
[PASTE]
The posting I am aiming at:
[PASTE, or write "none"]
Go line by line and sort every bullet into one of three buckets.
A. Contractual. What the certificate and the contract already require — lesson plans aligned to state standards, parent-teacher conferences, grading, IEP attendance, duty coverage. True, and it tells a principal nothing they did not already assume when they read my certification.
B. Specific to me. Something the teacher in the room next door could not truthfully put on their own resume — a unit I wrote that someone else adopted, an intervention or schedule I designed, a club I started, a role I was selected for.
C. Unclear. Could be either, depending on detail I left out.
Then:
1. Tell me how many of my bullets landed in bucket A, and quote the three weakest.
2. For every bullet in bucket C, ask me the one question that would move it into B. Ask — do not assume the answer.
3. Name what is missing entirely. Look for what my resume does not cover: endorsements stated by grade band, curriculum and platforms by name, coaching or mentoring, family engagement, work outside my own classroom. Put these to me as questions to answer, not as lines you write for me.
4. If I gave you a posting, say which of my bucket B lines it actually rewards, and which strong lines are irrelevant to it.
Do not add experience, a program name, a certification or a number I did not give you. If a bucket A bullet cannot be saved, tell me to cut it.
Rules — these override everything above:
- Use only the experience I give you. Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, degrees, certifications, skills, or metrics.
- If a number would strengthen a line and I have not given you one, write a placeholder like [X%] or [$X] for me to fill in. Do not estimate it.
- Do not add a tool, skill, or credential I did not list, however standard it is in my field.
- Rewrite, reorder, tighten and re-emphasize what is already there. Where I have given you too little to work with, ask me for it or leave [add detail].
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Answer its bucket C questions, then ask it to rewrite only those bullets — bucket A lines are usually better cut than polished.
Claude: Claude will usually finish sorting before it starts fixing, which is what you want here. If it jumps straight to rewrites, reply "finish the buckets first, then stop".
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General prompts that also work for a teacher resume
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