Education · $7 · 5 minutes
A teaching cover letter
from inside the classroom.
Hiring committees read hundreds of teaching letters. The ones that work give them a sense of being in your classroom in the first paragraph.
Example output
Dear Principal Reyes,
I'm applying for the seventh-grade English position posted last week. Six years in middle-school English — three at Lincoln, three at Riverdale — and a stable belief that the best way to teach writing is to make students write a lot, read each other's work out loud, and revise relentlessly.
What that looks like in practice: every student in my class writes 1,500 words a week. We do peer-edit cycles every Friday. By March, the room can talk about a sentence's structure without flinching. I have data on growth metrics if your team is curious.
I'd welcome the chance to come in and meet a class. References from two parents and one colleague are attached.
Best,
Alex Whitfield
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Common questions
- Will it feel template-y?
- No. The opener and the specifics come from your inputs — that's what kills the template feel.
- How long is it?
- 250-350 words. One screen. That's what recruiters actually read.