All songwriters, whether individuals or groups, write best in their own way, in the order which suits them and their songs, and very often dealing with more than one aspect of the writing at a time – for example, coming up with words and music together. Furthermore, they may well write different songs in different ways. So there is no one way to teach songwriting.

Guide to Songwriting by David Stoll (www.creative-confidence.com) suggests some processes, techniques and ideas for encouraging your students to write their own songs.

Writer's Unblocked by Pixel (Education Leeds Artforms) was written as part of the Extra-Curricular Learning pathfinder programme, and provides music leaders with some ideas for songwriting.