Hello people. I'm writing a supporting statement for a job application and I would like to know if the following sentence is correct:

Particularly, I am concerned about the part in red. Is it grammatically correct in English? If not, in which other way I could say that? (meaning something like "a task of the importance teaching has")

Thanks in advance.

Gramatically, the sentence is correct.

I'd question the style, though. It seems a bit grandiouse to me. This is just my opinion, but I think such statements cause a hiring manager to cringe. Direct and to the point serves better.

Besides, experience teaches you the material, but it doesn't teach you to be a teacher. There is a unique skill set required to teach.

Thanks SL00b, I get your point about the sentence being grandiouse. Maybe I should change it to something more discreet and "to the point", as you suggested (on the other hand, some of the supporting statements and cover letters examples I've read tend to be a bit pompous ).

Regards, and thanks again.

Is everything "ok" with this phrase?:

Yep.

There seems to be a disagreement as to whether a cover letter is even needed or wanted anymore. I can't say that I've ever used one successfully.

Re posts #827,828: I think you meant http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grandiose

Re cover Letters: for a direct application to a company, a Cover Letter allows you to express stuff that maybe doesn't fit well into the more formal structure of a CV eg personally my CV is a work CV, anything I do at out of work eg at home or say charity work that may be relevant goes into the letter.
You can also say why you want to work for them etc.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep it in mind for the next time (I already sent the application some days ago, let's see how it goes).

AFAIK it is grammatically correct but it does not say what I think you want it to say.

The problem is "such". "such an important task as teaching" means "a task as important as teaching" so the sentence means that you are skilled to do an unspecified task which is as important as teaching. I think you wanted to say you are skilled to teach, an important task.

I agree with SL00b that the style is grandiose (incidentally not grandiouse). Regards "The experience I have gained through the years", the "I have" is not necessary -- we know you are writing about your own experience, not somebody else's -- and experience is necessarily gained over time so the "through the years" is over-egging the cake. Similarly "successfully accomplish" is not necessary unless the reader might otherwise reasonably think you would "abysmally fail" at teaching! Perhaps yo want to emphasise the point in which case a simple "well" would be more natural.

Which leaves what? Something like "My experience gives skills to teach well."

Thanks for the suggestions and corrections, catkin; much appreciated

I get it, it's a subtle detail but can change the meaning of the sentence... maybe I was thinking in Spanish and writing in English when I wrote that.

As for the style, I was probably trying to sound formal. It's hard for me to differentiate a formal style from a pompous one in English (although I admit talking about the importance of teaching is grandiose... I guess I was running out of ideas about what to put at the end of the statement, I just hope the rest of it hasn't been grandiose too ).

Regards and thanks again.

Eww. If the previous style was too grandiose (spelled right, this time), this one has the opposite problem. It makes the writer sound like a monosyllabic neanderthal.

Here's a suggestion that's brief, direct, understated, but impressive... all the things I think a resume should be:

"My extensive experience would provide additional value to my students."

What's wrong with:
I'm confident that my experience, which is extensive, will make me a good teacher.
?

Let's condense that a bit further ():

Mr.Code,

I always write it the way Brian has shown, thinking it
is the most correct way! Why exactly do you think that's
wrong? Is there some rule on the basis of which commas
are supposed to be placed?

In fact I am finding Brian's statement more easier to
read, perhaps because I write it that way myself!

I don't think it's really "wrong" per se, I just thought I'd offer a slightly more "compact" version of that sentence.

I suppose which one is more correct would depend somewhat on context. :-\