Dear Sir / Madam:

Good Day!

 It is with great pleasure that I am seeking to secure a teaching position in your school.  I believe that my instructional abilities, combined with my strong interpersonal skills and work ethic would greatly benefit your educational program.

The enclosed resume will highlight my career achievements and showcase my dedication to education. Being a versatile educator, I have taken the opportunity to instruct a wide variety of students from various backgrounds and all facets of society.  As a result, I’m a compassionate teacher, who remains sensitive to children’s unique needs, employs effective listening, provides individual and whole group support, integrates multicultural teaching units, and offers positive encouragement and reinforcement to students focused and motivated.

One of the most effective ways that I assist ESL students is by developing and presenting comprehensible and stimulating lesson plans that facilitate all learning styles.  I research, locate, and incorporate a variety of resources to accommodate students via visual, audio, and kinesthetic methods.  My goal is to foster and maintain an open, honest, communicative, and supportive classroom, in which each student feels safe, secure, special, and appropriately challenged.

Please contact me in your convenience to set up a meeting so that we may discuss in great detail how my qualifications would best meet the needs of your educational program.  Thank you for your time and consideration.

Yours truly,

REDD V. BURNS                                       

Summary of qualifications

• Regarded as a key resource and a problem solver by colleagues and school administration.
• Frequently lead in-service workshops and willingly volunteer for difficult and unpopular tasks.
• Teaching the ESL students in the regular classroom.
• Worked with students in various aspects of career exploration and testing, including completion of career interest inventories, resumes design, and interview skills training.
• Developed Lesson Plans, Corrected projects and assignments.
• Expand the range of learning through whole class, individual, and small group instruction, cooperative education.
• Implement multiple teaching methods to accommodate students with varying learning styles and abilities.
• Conduct student evaluation, testing, and grading with a focus on developing students academically and socially.
• Created a fun learning environment where children were given the opportunity to explore, discover, and learn new talents through art, song, and games.
• Taught lesson plans, units, and learning centers in all areas of the curriculum that stimulated students’ creative and critical thinking skills.   
• Ability to integrate theoretical concepts and practical ideas, and apply them to actual classroom situations.
• View teaching and learning as a dynamic and interactive process.