Important element is deeply understanding our curriculum. Most teachers know what they're going to cover this week or this term. Few of us can specify precisely what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of any particular learning experience or set of learning experiences. Without that specificity, alignment between content, assessment, and instruction is weak.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.