Biology Teacher Cover Letter Example

I teach AP Biology, Honors Biology and a standard ninth-grade biology section at Lookout Mountain High School, moving between three very different paces in the same day. I'm applying to the biology opening at [School name] because the posting's interest in a teacher who can grow AP enrollment while keeping the standard course rigorous is exactly the balance I already manage.

AP Biology enrollment grew from 11 to 29 students over three years after I removed the informal prerequisite of having taken honors chemistry first, and our AP exam pass rate held at 82% through that growth instead of dropping as the class got bigger. In my standard section, state biology EOC pass rates rose from 71% to 88% after I rebuilt the unit tests around the state's actual released items.

I hold a state secondary science certification and current lab safety training, and I run a shared review-question bank across all three of my course levels so students moving up a level, from standard to honors, arrive with the same academic vocabulary. I also sponsor our school's Science Olympiad team, now with 22 members.

I'd welcome a conversation about your science department's AP growth and EOC results and how removing enrollment barriers could help at [School name]. I'm glad to share my exam data whenever it's useful.