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I'm an experienced teacher in a school where the principal is a complete jerk. I have only been at this school for ONE year and have decided that I will not be returning to this school for the next school year. I have previous other teaching experience in a different state. Do I have to put my current school on my resume or can I leave out this school? (If schools ask why there is a one year gap on my resume, I can tell them that I just moved here and decided to get settled in)
If I put the school down and obviously will not use the principal as a reference, what would I tell other schools that I interview with, as far as why I left that school only after a year?
When I got the job at my current school, I had been at my previous job one school year. The interviewing team did not seem to care that much. I don't even remember if they asked. Like Pitt chick said, tell them it was not the right school for you. As long as you don't bash the school, you should be fine.
1) If it is a CV and not a resume, then as a rule, it should definitely be complete.
2) Although a resume is more of an "advertisement" than a complete description, it is still not good for your resume to look like there was a time when you were unemployed. The goal of a resume is to get interviewed. Get yourself to the interview, and then explain how: "you didn't fit", "the goals of the school were different from yours", etc.
3) At the interview NEVER appear to be a disgruntled employee. You can still choose not to have the principal be on your list of references. You can explain this as the principal - having only known you for a short while - would not be a good evaluator.
4) You might be able to offset any bad signals of not including your recent supervisor, by including comments/work of your best students in your portfolio.
You can always explain a short stint at a job, particularly where you left by choice, versus being terminated, as a mutual poor fit. It's pretty obvious that that's what it was, anyway. As long as you don't have a big string of these "mutual poor fits" on your resume that would indicate a pattern of something else, it shouldn't be a big deal. Not every workplace is going to be a good match, and employers know that.
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