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Art Teacher resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what art 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 art teachers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Registered secondary visual arts teacher with a studio practice across drawing, painting, printmaking and digital media. Experienced in planning programs that build technical skill and visual literacy from Year 7 through to senior folio work. Known for running an orderly, well-stocked studio and for exhibitions that give student work a genuine audience.
Key skills
- Visual arts teaching across drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and digital media
- Curriculum and lesson design aligned to the Australian Curriculum: The Arts
- Classroom and behaviour management in practical studio settings
- Student assessment and reporting against achievement standards
- Pastoral care and student wellbeing
- Exhibition and display coordination
- Art history and theory taught alongside practical work
- Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator)
- Google Classroom and Canvas LMS
- Procreate on iPad
- Microsoft 365
- Studio resource management and WHS compliance
Experience: example bullet points
- Planned and delivered visual arts programs across junior and senior year levels, sequencing skills from observational drawing through to resolved major works so students built on prior learning rather than starting fresh each unit.
- Assessed practical work, visual diaries and written folios against the achievement standards, returning feedback students could act on within the same unit instead of after the work was finished.
- Coordinated the annual student exhibition, managing submission deadlines, hanging a display across two spaces and rostering student helpers across the opening event.
- Maintained the studio budget and supply inventory, teaching students to prep and reuse materials such as canvases and printmaking inks, which kept the studio running through the full year without emergency purchases.
- Introduced Procreate and Adobe Creative Cloud into the senior program, extending the options available for major works without adding to the studio's physical footprint.
- Ran lunchtime studio sessions for students preparing major works, lifting completed submissions from a handful of volunteers to the full senior cohort.
- Supervised and mentored preservice teachers and studio assistants, including safe operation of the kiln, etching press and cutting equipment.
- Led a whole-school art history unit that linked periods and movements to the practical tasks students were working on, giving theory a visible place in their own making.
Education
Bachelor of Education (Secondary) with a Visual Arts specialisation, or a Bachelor of Fine Arts followed by a Master of Teaching (Secondary), plus current registration with the relevant state or territory teacher authority such as NESA, VIT or the QCT and a Working with Children Check.
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
- NESA
- VIT
- QCT
- Working with Children Check
- Australian Curriculum: The Arts
- Visual Arts
- child safe standards
- differentiation
- assessment and reporting
- classroom management
- WHS in the art studio
- exhibition coordination
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Canvas LMS
- Google Classroom
- art history and theory
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.