When I was in the classroom, I always said I didn’t teach English, I taught students how to be better people through the subject of English. I was very clear that I was teaching beyond the literature and the writing to something just as essential, if not more so - how to be a self-directed, yet at the same time, an interdependent person. Here are three ideas around capacities of self-directedness and interdependence that you could apply to your teaching.

Building Agency in Others

Pretend you are a student and your teacher comes over to look at your math homework. Feel the difference between these two sentences.