Models of Teaching/Coaching Summer, 1997 Peter S. Pierro, Ed.D., Instructor Session - Week #1 This weeks’ featured model and founder Non-directive Teaching, Carl Rogers The Handout to the Class In the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, Carl Rogers gained attention for his style of teaching - Non-directive Teaching - a model that we might consider more learning that teaching. His approach was to give his students the resources they needed so that they could teach themselves.