
A resume tells a school what you've done. A teaching portfolio shows them how you actually teach. It's the difference between a school reading a list of qualifications and a school seeing real evidence of your classroom thinking — and in a competitive market, that evidence is often what moves you from “maybe” to “yes.”

A short breakdown of what to include and how to put it together. Watch this before you start pulling your portfolio together — seeing a real example built out makes it much easier to know what “good” actually looks like.
This is the part most people find hardest, because it asks you to put your own approach into words rather than just listing facts. Keep it short — a few honest sentences beats a long, generic paragraph. Focus on:
A philosophy that sounds like it could belong to any teacher isn't doing its job. The more specific and genuinely yours it is, the more it actually tells a school about you.