The Secondary Music Teachers Guide

For those of you who love a good book, the Guide is now available in softcover.

A comprehensive handbook for music teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This practical, classroom-tested guide supports both new and experienced teachers. Written specifically for New Zealand music educators, it offers strategies, and ideas that you can apply immediately.

The book is a “living resource” designed for secondary music educators either at the start of their career or experienced teachers.

This also has ideas and resources for your own Professional Development, like Metacognition in Music and Wellbeing.

What’s inside:

• Curriculum planning for junior and senior levels, including NCEA
• Assessment tools using SOLO taxonomy and inclusive practice
• Teacher wellbeing and sustainable workload strategies
• Culturally responsive teaching and applying Treaty partnership
• Department management, budgeting, timetabling, and inventory systems
• An alternative to NCEA Level 1 with a full internal programme and portfolio tasks
• Metacognition, digital tools, and student voice
• Over 30 templates, examples, and classroom-tested strategies

Teacher testimonial:

"Ever wondered why we don't have an expansive document for our subject, specific to the contexts and challenges within which we strive and operate? Well... look no further! Andrew Stopps has done it.

I am two dozen pages in and cannot stop nodding in agreeance with this kaupapa. It's a 400-odd page tome of kōrero, inspiration, knowledge, hints and tips, ideas, projects, approaches, scaffolds, and everything else you could want — whether you're curious, starting out as a teacher, or already experienced.

Congratulations, Andrew. I believe this should be in every single secondary music teaching space in the country."

— Dave Sims, TIC Performing Arts, Ruapehu College