Summary
Steve Copley is a experienced digital learning leader and educator with nine years in his current role as Digital Learning Coordinator and TiC Digital Technologies at Waimea College and a long history of head-of-department roles across international and New Zealand schools. He blends classroom teaching in Digital Technologies, Computing and ICT with hands-on systems management, curriculum development and practical programming experience dating back to engineering work in C/C++ for clients like Motorola and Nokia. Comfortable toggling between pedagogy and infrastructure, he builds course resources, supports colleagues, and keeps school IT reliable and current. Colleagues describe him as adaptable and passionate, equally at home debugging code or designing assessments, and he openly brings a candid, self-deprecating humour to learning (“ex-programmer, now teacher”). His career shows a consistent thread of translating technical depth into teachable practice and sustainable departmental systems. Based in Nelson, New Zealand, he combines practical engineering roots with modern digital pedagogy to prepare students for real-world computing.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng, Electronic Communications Engineering, B.Eng, Electronic Communications Engineering at University of Hull
PGCE, Design Technology and Outdoor Education, PGCE, Design Technology and Outdoor Education at University of Leeds
English, French