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Health and physical education teacher resume examples from 2026

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a health and physical education teacher resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in health and physical education teacher-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the health and physical education teacher position.

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List the right project manager skills

Use your Skills section to show you have the knowledge and technical ability to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
  2. Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
  3. Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some health and physical education teacher interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a health and physical education teacher resume:

  • Classroom Management
  • Physical Education Curriculum
  • K-12
  • School Health
  • Volleyball
  • Classroom Environment
  • Student Performance
  • Softball
  • Public Schools
  • Soccer
  • Student Learning
  • Learning Styles
  • Physical Education Classes
  • CPR
  • Kindergarten
  • State Standards
  • Professional Development
  • Health Curriculum
  • Blended Learning
  • K-8
  • IEP
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Physical Education
  • Physical Fitness
  • Pre-K
  • Student Achievement
  • Mathematics
  • Instructional Techniques
  • Weight Training
  • JV

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How to structure your work experience

A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.

  1. Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
  2. Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.

How to write health and physical education teacher experience bullet points

Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.

Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:

  • Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
  • Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
  • Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.

This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.

Here are effective examples from health and physical education teacher resumes:

Work history example #1

Health And Physical Education Teacher

The Wellington School

  • Succeeded in organizing the first K-12 P.E.
  • Instructed two sections of World Cultures II; a course for ESL students.
  • Provided one-on-on academic support to students K-12
  • Developed and executed daily lessons in Chemistry and Physics Facilitated and implemented daily lesson plans with differentiated instruction.
  • Directed practice and travel events for 7th and 8th grade girl's volleyball, basketball, and track.

Work history example #2

Athletic Trainer

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  • Collaborated with psychiatry staff regarding medication issues and referred patients to appropriate resources within and outside of Kaiser.
  • Applied stretching, evaluation and taping techniques for Boys/Girls soccer, football, Girls field hockey, Boys/Girls basketball and wrestling.
  • Volunteered at numerous BIG XII, NCAA, and UIL state athletic events.
  • Served as assistant volleyball coach and assistant to the Athletic Director.
  • Assisted the head athletic trainer in tending to student athlete injuries at high school football and soccer games.

Work history example #3

Assistant Track And Field Coach

MARQUETTE UNIV HIGH SCHOOL

  • Followed and implemented rules regulated by NFHS and NCAA.
  • Led women's team to first ever NCAA All Academic Team award and two more since.
  • Adhered strictly to rules and regulations of the athletics department and the NCAA.
  • Recruited prospective student athletes to an NCAA division II institution.
  • Reviewed game film and statistical reports for game operations.Groups & Accomplishments CPR and AED certified Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) certified

Work history example #4

Health And Physical Education Teacher

Lynchburg Public Schools Adm

  • Implemented American Heart Association CPR curriculum for students.
  • Coached Volleyball, Track, and Basketball at the Middle School level.
  • Coached boys soccer at Lakeshore Middle School [ ] and Lake Norman High School (2011).
  • Designed and implemented pre-season training programs for the Girls Softball Teams.
  • Certified students and staff in CPR and First Aid.

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Add an education section to your resume

Here is the best way to format your education section:

  • Display your highest degree first.
  • If you graduated over 5 years ago, put this section at the bottom of your resume. If you lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
  • If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education.
  • If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.

Here are some examples of good education entries from health and physical education teacher resumes:

Doctoral Degree in health education

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven, PA

2002 - 2005

Doctoral Degree in health education

Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA

2010 - 2013

Highlight your health and physical education teacher certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.

Start simple. Include the full name of the certification. It's also good to mention the organization that issued the certification. Next, specify when you obtained the certification.

Here are some of the best certifications to have on health and physical education teacher resumes:

  1. Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES)
  2. Certified Adapted Physical Educator (CAPE)
  3. First Aid, CPR and AED Instructor
  4. Educational Certificate: K-12 (Ed:)
  5. Instructor

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