Linda M.

I am a highly experienced Mathematics teacher with 35 years’ teaching experience and I possess enthusiasm and comprehensive subject knowledge, motivation and complete commitment to encourage students to achieve at the highest level. There is nothing more rewarding than enabling students to apply difficult mathematical concepts with confidence to obtain the best grades possible and seeing those students progress to competitive university courses of their choice.

I have 35 years' teaching experience: 18 years in state secondary schools in the West Midlands and 17 years in independent sixth form colleges in Birmingham. I currently work part time as an A Level Intervention Teacher in a large comprehensive school in Birmingham. I have an Enhanced DBS Certificate on the Update Service.

I have taught all modules (including all modules for the new specifications from September 2017) in Pure, Statistics, Mechanics and Decision Maths for both A Level Maths and A Level Further Maths. I was Head of UCAS for eight years at an independent sixth form college in Birmingham and therefore have extensive experience in advising students in relation to personal statements and course choices and guiding staff writing references. I taught GCSE Mathematics at all levels, A Level Mathematics, A Level Further Mathematics and some Additional Further Mathematics A Level (M3 and M4).

I have extensive experience of teaching all branches of A2 Maths and Further Maths including Pure Maths, Mechanics, Statistics and Decision for Edexcel, MEI, OCR and AQA. I have written detailed week by week schemes of work for GCSE, A Level Mathematics and A Level Further Mathematics for both legacy specifications and for the specifications that had first teaching in September 2016 and 2017 for GCSE and A Level respectively. I have been a form teacher for students across all key stages, principally for KS5 students and have been involved in the monitoring of students’ work and progress in both my academic and pastoral roles. I have a proven track record of helping students obtain A and A* grades for GCSE and for A Level Maths and Further Maths and in one year group 100% of students obtained A* grades for both Maths and Further Maths A2. I was also an examiner for Edexcel A Level Pure Mathematics for two years.

Modules I have taught include: P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, C1, C2, C3, C4, M1, M2, M3, M4, S1, S2, S3, D1, FP1, FP2, FP3, new Pure Paper 1, new Pure Paper 2, new Statistics and Mechanics, new Further Pure Core 1 and Core 2, new Further Pure 1, new Further Pure 2, new Decision 1 and new Further Mechanics 1. I can also teach the new Further Statistics 1 and Further Mechanics 2. I have also taught GCSE Music and A Level Music ( traditional harmony and counterpoint, history of music and analysis), piano to grade 6, violin to grade 8 and Theory of Music to grade 8. I also play keyboard once a month and sometimes organ for services at a local church.

I provide fully comprehensive course notes that I have written myself as PDF files and printouts and have always done do as I do not believe that note taking in class is an efficient use of time unless students are working through problems or mathematical proofs. Students are always appreciative of good notes and I pride myself that my notes are comprehensive, carefully structured, sequential according to difficulty and very easy to follow. I have also written a structured manual for students to enable easy usage of the Casio 991 calculator.

I always illustrate concepts with fully worked examples then provide past paper practice to enable students to gain exam technique and consolidate it. I set work judiciously and selectively from past papers and textbooks to cover the work comprehensively so all techniques are covered.