Constitution

What constitutes good teaching? Good communication. Communication is key in every relationship, but, aside from our personal relationships, nothing tests your communicative skills like teaching. Want to create a behavior problem? Start the class with some ambiguous directions. Communicating with the students as individuals and as a class helps alleviate problems in behavior and aids in the design of effective curriculum.

As individual teachers we all place higher importance on one or two aspects of "good teaching". I would assume that the vast majority of teachers would agree on a collaborative list of 50 or more "good teaching" practices. It's the two or three items we, as individuals, place at the top of our list that makes our ideas of good teaching different. Not to mention that our differing program areas demand the mastery of very different skills. While creativity may be very important in my area, someone teaching Accounting III may not identify creativity as their number one priority. It's not to say this teacher doesn't value creativity, but, that they may not find the skill as absolutely necessary to teaching the art of accounting.