Experience Letters for teachers are as important as other letters. Any school would generally ask you, if you are teacher and applying for new job, to produce experience certificate while applying. The school authorities can evaluate you on the basis of this certificate. This letter can exhibit your capabilities as a teacher, mentor and as a guide. So always support your job application form with an experience letter to make the chances of getting shortlisted more bright.
Elements of Experience Letters for Teachers
There are certain areas that need to be mentioned while formatting experience letters for teachers.
Skills as a teacher: The experience letter should emphasize that how efficiently the teacher handled a class of, say, 40 students. How well s/he used to plan, strategize the lessons to be taught, how s/he brought in good values and morals in his/her students.
Mention of extracurricular activities’ skills: Teachers do posses extracurricular skills which need to be focused in the experience letter. Tell in the letters how the teacher in question has planned and executed various school functions, class activities and proactively participated to make the school shine among the contemporaries.
Contribution to School’s growth: The experience letter must make a mention of the capabilities of the teacher a contributor to school’s growth. You should write how the teacher innovated strategies to propagate school, how he established goodwill among the colleagues, the senior management the students and parents.
Personal growth: By personal growth we mean how a candidate was selected as an associate teacher and how s/he managed to acquire the designation of, say, Senior Subject Teacher in your school. For instance you can say that this particular teacher joined on ad-hoc basis but soon became an integral part of school growth and was promoted as Senior Science Faculty. He became a favorite among the staff and students and continually showed progress to become the HOD of certain department.
Membership of any council: Here you can talk about the membership the teacher has taken during her tenure in your school and helped in bringing great results for the school. For example, you can mention that the teacher has proactively opted to become a member of “All India English Teachers’ Council”.
Training, Seminars and Workshops: The certificate could also mention the training and workshops that the teacher has undergone on school’s behalf. For example you can mention that the teacher has undergone a training “Including LSRW Skills in Teaching Literature”. Also if any seminar or any workshop was attended by the teacher during the tenure, you can make a mention of it also.
Paper Presentation: You can also include this vital element that can boost teacher’s candidature. For example, you can mention that the teacher has presented a paper “The Art of Translation and Effects on Literature” in a seminar “Translation and Literature”.