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Head Teacher Job Description

Directs and coordinates educational, administrative, and counseling activities of primary or secondary school.
Develops and evaluates educational program to ensure conformance to state and school board standards.
Develops and coordinates educational programs through meetings with staff, review of teachers' activities, and issuance of directives.
Confers with teachers, students, and parents concerning educational and behavioral problems in school. Establishes and maintains relationships with colleges, community organizations, and other schools to coordinate educational services.
Requisitions and allocates supplies, equipment, and instructional material as needed.
Directs preparation of class schedules, cumulative records, and attendance reports.
Observes and evaluates teacher performance. Walks about school building and property to monitor safety and security. Plans and monitors school budget

Sample Head Teacher Resume Template

Contact information

In this section you have to include your Name, current home address, Mobile telephone number, Landline telephone number and your personal email address which is currently used.

Full name
Present and permanent addresses
Telephone numbers
Email address

Professional or career objective

Your objective is the one that clearly underlines your aims and aspirations in that profession. For example a Teaching Graduate will have to write an objective which is concise and precisely speaks about his role that he wants to play in the Organization.

Sample Objective for Head Teacher
Seeking a challenging and responsible position to use my abilities and experience effectively and efficiently for children and I also have acquisition for learning and developing new skills.

Career Achievements

If you have any major Career Achievements or any Appreciation then this is the section where they should be listed. For Example a Head Teacher can add his/her career achievements like,

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, Strong-Campbell testing, resumes design, and interview skills training.
Developed Lesson Plans, Corrected projects and assignments

Experience

Previous work experience plays an important role while applying for a Job and hence it should be well presented in the resume. Most of the questions during your resume will be related to the previous job that you had and hence you should be well prepared for it. You should begin with putting the name of the organization that you worked for, the duration of your work and the post or the designation at which you were working. After this, you can effectively place points in a bulleted format that talk about the responsibilities and the achievements that you may have achieved during your stay at the previous organization. The work experience of an experienced Head Teacher applying for a job would look like,

Head Teacher
Sir Madhvan Elementary School, Dehradoon, 2005-Present

Major emphasis on successfully mainstreaming learning disabled students into regular education.
Social Studies, Science, and Mathematics classes.
Established close working relationships and regular education staff to modify curriculum to meet the needs of special education students.
Coordinated, designed and implemented individual IEP goals in Reading and Language Arts. Supervised instructional aides.

Head Teacher
Pine Castle Boarding School, Dehradoon, 2002-2005

Designed and implemented individual lEP's, responsibly arranged and chaired CORE'S for each student.
Coordinated efforts of each specialist involved on TEAM.
Developed curricula in all content areas. Effectively established excellent rapport with regular education staff which earned recognition of the special education class.
Screened potential candidates for program, reporting directly to the SPED administrator. Supervised student teachers and instructional aides.

Head Teacher
Somani School for Boys, Shimla, 1999-2002

Head Teacher, self-contained emotionally disturbed and learning disabilities.
Developed positive behavior modification techniques to coincide with success-oriented group and individual lesson plans.
Integral member of TEAM, coordinating IEP's, case-conferences, parent contact, and psychological support.
Supervised student teachers.

Elementary Teacher
Mahendra Public School, Delhi, 1996-1999

Play key role in orchestrating the adoption of new mathematical programmers.
Integrated English instruction into all subject matters.
Introduced weekly parent newsletters and held frequently parent conferences.
Created and delivered well received writing work shop for teachers and Parents.
Solicited and secured activity sponsors, organized transportation, and developed lively programs that resulted in attendance far surpassing original protestations.
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.

Education and Certification:

The academic details need to be mentioned in a tabulated format with respect to the degrees or the courses that the candidate would have undertaken in the past. The latest degree or course comes first followed by the last completed course and hence forth going backwards. For example a Head Teacher who has completed post graduation or graduation course is applying for a Job or to a company or an organization then his/her details would be like,

B A (Elementary education & Philosophy) Rajasthan University, Delhi, 1994
B. Ed. Rajasthan University, Delhi, 1992
Diploma in Child Psychology Dr.Abdhulla College, Delhi, 2000

Honors

If you have won any competitions national or international then they could also be highlighted here. For example a Head Teacher could lay stress on any exams that he may have given or any seminars or conferences attended. If you are a part of any honorary society or any nonprofit organization then that could also be added here. The honors and the activities section of a Head Teacher would look like,

Chief Guest of Interschool Sports Meet, Shimla 2006.
Awarded to significant role playing in save the mountain mission.
Member of organization committee of Shimla Festival 2004-2007.

References:

The References are generally required so that your present employer can gauge you through the eyes of the people who you were associated with or have worked for. So your teachers or college professors' details could be placed here. Or your past employer who you would have worked under can also be used as a reference. Ensure that the people whose names you enter know you well and do inform them that you are placing their names as reference because many companies call to confirm. For example the references section of a Head Teacher could also look like, Mr.Girish Jain Sr. Member Shimla social Asocial Girishjain@iiijjkk.com

Salary Range of a Project :

The average salary received is approximately Rs. 20000 per month. This works out to an annual pay package of 2.50 Lakhs to 3.25 Lakhs per annum CTC.
The salary from an American perspective works out to be $9000 per Month.

Note: This salary may be variable and it may change from organization to organization.

Frequently asked Head Teacher Interview Question

What type of reading program did you use in student teaching?
Tell me what you know about the 4-block Literacy Model.
What is your personal educational philosophy?
If you could design the ideal classroom for the elementary grades what would it look like?
Which subject area do you believe is your strength, which is your weakest? What steps will you take to improve in this area?
What are the most important or worthwhile qualifications of a good teacher?
What are your strengths and weaknesses as a teacher?
Describe your student teaching successes and failures?
Describe a good lesson, explain why it was good.

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