Would anyone please share their personal statement!

[TeachBee]

I'm in need of inspiration to get me started!

No- because it needs to be personal. And the way I teach and think about teaching isn't the way you teach or think about it. But I'm happy to help you get started on constructing your own.

What's your current experience- are you a student looking for their first job or do you have some years under your belt?

You could include some information about your degree and experience to dat- what kind of schools, what challenges did you deal with (EAL, mixed aged classes etc).

How do you plan, adapt teaching for children? Do you have any tangible results, e.g. children increased reading age by...

Behaviour- what strategies do you use?

Working as a team or with colleagues. Have you been a subject lead? What extra things might you bring to a school - start a club or play the piano.

Home school links- how do you liaise with parents?

Safeguarding.

Don't be afraid to use 'I'. I did , I believe. But start a few sentences differently, so 'Using the school schemes of work, I ....'

No.

But you can use the job advert and job descriptions as inspiration.

For each point listed, describe, in your own words, that you fit this characteristic and explain why, e.g. for "taking an active part in wider school life" you could talk about your involvement with enrichment tasks and the progress students have made due to this.

You generally wedge this into a generic reason why you want to work in that school and a way of telling them you'd like them to get in touch.

I applied for a job recently and started myself off with chat gpt……..

Depends on what it’s for. If it’s for teacher training in secondary science you could probably just write your name…

No one can help you there. You need a copy of the person specification attached to the job advert and explain how you evidence that as a teacher.

I recently secured my first teaching position. When I wrote my personal statement I had their specification open at the same time and related almost every point back to that specification. Make sure you cover all of the essential ones thoroughly and then reflect back on what experience or skills you can relate to the desired things.

This and give very specific examples of what you have done to illustrate the point.