Maths Teacher CV Examples & Writing Guide

A CV for a qualified secondary maths teacher with eleven years in state schools. The names are invented. Notice that QTS and the DBS status sit in the header, every job names the exact courses and student load, and results are given as growth with a starting point.

Maths posts are hard to fill in most areas, so the screen is less about whether you are qualified and more about what you can cover and how your students do.

• QTS and your induction status, plus the key stages you have taught. A teacher who has taken classes from KS3 to A-level opens different doors from one who has only taught up to GCSE.
• Which courses you can teach tomorrow. KS3, GCSE Foundation and Higher, A-level Mathematics and Further Mathematics, Core Maths, and whether you can also take a class of something else.
• Student results with a starting point. Grade 4+ and 5+ rates, value added, A-level grade distributions, progress against target grades. Every teacher says they raised achievement; the ones who give the baseline get called.
• How you handle the range. In one Year 9 set there are students two years behind and students ready for more. Headteachers want to hear what you actually do about that.
• Behaviour management and the extras. Whether you can run a room, and whether you will coach, run a club or maths team, or take on data leadership.

“I hire maths teachers every year and the CVs blur together. The one that stands out says: this is the course, this is what the pass rate was when I got it, this is what I changed, this is what it is now. And it tells me whether they can take A-level, because that decides my timetable.”

In England, Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) is awarded by the Teaching Regulation Agency on behalf of the Department for Education; Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own registration bodies. Write what you hold, the year, your training route, subject and key stages, and your induction status. If you qualified elsewhere, say where your application stands rather than leaving the headteacher to guess.

• Extras worth naming when you have them: a second subject you can teach to GCSE, EAL or SEND training, and any specialist role you have held.
• A national professional qualification (NPQLT, NPQSL) or Maths Hub work through the NCETM, such as a mastery specialist role, is a strong line, so put it near the top.
• Further Mathematics teaching, or training through the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP), tells a headteacher you can take those classes immediately.
• Training routes, induction rules and registration differ between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, so check the official guidance for the nation you are applying in rather than copying what a friend wrote.

Three or four lines: key stages, courses, your best result with its baseline, and anything extra you bring to a timetable. Use a career objective only for a first teaching job or a career change.

Teaching CVs fill up with things every teacher does. Give the course, the number of students, the change and the starting point.

Group them into what you teach, how you teach it, and the systems you run. Name the platforms, because schools and trusts standardise on specific ones and want people who already know theirs.

• Courses and content: KS3 maths, GCSE Maths (Foundation and Higher tier), A-level Mathematics and Further Mathematics, Core Maths, statistics, and IB mathematics where a school offers it.
• Teaching: scheme of work and lesson planning, common assessment design, assessment for learning, spiral review and retrieval practice, problem-solving tasks, small-group teaching, retake and redo policies.
• Working with a range of learners: SEN support and EHCP provision, working with the SENCO and teaching assistants, support for EAL students, stretch for the most able, tutoring and catch-up intervention.
• Data: GCSE and A-level results, mock exam analysis, standardised assessments, question-level analysis, tracking a cohort across a year.
• Technology: Desmos, GeoGebra, Sparx Maths, Dr Frost Maths, Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams, and the MIS your school uses (SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom).
• Behaviour management: routines and procedures, restorative conversations, phone and pacing policies, building a room where students will risk a wrong answer in front of others.
• Beyond the classroom: department leadership, mentoring, scheme of work writing, maths team or club, UKMT challenges, sports coaching, tutoring programmes, family engagement.

Schools hire new maths teachers every year and many are short of them, so a thin CV is not fatal. What a headteacher needs is evidence you have stood in front of students and that your QTS is on track.

1. 1Put your training status at the top with dates: route, placements completed, when QTS is expected and when you can start.
2. 2Write school placements like a real job: school, year groups, courses, number of classes and students, and what changed while you were there.
3. 3Count all the teaching-adjacent work you have done: tutoring, summer schools, cover supervisor days, coaching, holiday camp instruction, teaching assistant work, training adults at a previous job.
4. 4For career changers, connect your field to the maths: engineering, finance, data work and the armed forces all give you applications students ask about. Say what you will bring into lessons.
5. 5Name what else you can cover. Willingness to teach a second subject, coach a sport or run a club genuinely affects hiring in small schools.
6. 6Add a short portfolio line if you have one: a unit plan, a lesson video or a task bank you can share on request.

• One page for a new teacher, two pages once you have several years, leadership work and a course list. Two pages is normal in the UK.
• QTS first, in the header or immediately under it. It is the first thing screened.
• No photo, no date of birth, no marital status. The school's application form covers the safer recruitment details, including your full employment history.
• Most schools and trusts recruit through their own application form or the DfE's Teaching Vacancies service rather than a CV alone, so expect to retype everything. Keep a plain-text version of your CV ready to paste in.
• A supporting statement or cover letter is expected for teaching jobs, unlike many fields. Use it to explain your approach to mixed-attainment classes and why that school.
• Mirror the job advert: if it asks for KS5 experience, a mastery approach, intervention work or a specific platform, use those exact words where they are true.
• Applying to schools in the US, or international schools on an American curriculum? There the job is a math teacher and the document is a resume, with state licensure in place of QTS.

Timing matters more in teaching than in most fields. Most hiring for September happens between January and June, and many teachers have to resign by 31 May to leave at the end of the summer term, so having this document ready in the winter is worth as much as another round of editing.