How to be an excellent teacher

This guide reveals what factors contribute to making an excellent teacher.  I write this guide based on my own experience as a tutor and teacher for 10 years, and also from my observations of the excellent teachers I have come across along the way, some of whom taught me. This guide deliberately shies away from […]

What is Differentiation and Why is it important?

Differentiation ensures that students’ are working at a level appropriate for their ability and that this level is constantly being challenged upwards. Questions should successively infer progression or a development of a learning concept. Differentiated tasks prevent work becoming too easy, which can occur with rote style learning as can be the case with some traditional worksheets and old-style textbooks.
Differentiation is important because……

How the scrapping of national curriculum levels may affect you

We’re going to be discussing national curriculum levels and how scrapping them affects you, your child and your students.
So, national curriculum level indicators were officially scrapped in September 2014. In case you are not familiar, a child in the UK would have expected to have been at least at level 4 by the end of year 6. So why have the government chosen to abandon the use of national curriculum levels?

Progression in Maths

The Cazoom Maths Team recognise that every student progresses at their own pace. A level 5 student in year 7 is likely to make quicker progress than a level 5 student in year 10.

“Light” progression lets you know that the worksheet was designed for a slower rate of progression, there will be more repetition and variables will change less frequently. …

More Differentiation !

Cazoom Maths Worksheets have become even more differentiated with our new “with clues” system! Our team are designing some worksheets with clues, hints or answers, but giving you the option of choosing to use the worksheet without clues. This scaffolding makes differentiating your lessons even easier! You can use the same worksheet with your entire class and choose which students have clues and which students do not! To see which worksheets already have this in place just do a page search for “with clues” on the advanced search page 🙂