Referencing Chapter 2 of Brookfield
This chapter leads in with the best introduction... and encapsulates exactly what I think makes "good" teachers... or "good" doctors, "good" nurses or "good" mechanics.
1. It is whatever helps students (patients/interns/apprentice mechanics) learn what they need to
2. Good Teachers (Doctors/Nurses/Mechanics) reflect on what they do and how they do it and how it impacts others.
3. Are always mindful of how their students are experiencing the learning being delivered and how their actions are being perceived.
I love that these 3 core assumptions apply to almost any type of practitioner. And that there is skill, but also art to the enacting of those 3 assumptions. For example the skill may be to facilitate a classroom debate on a medical issue. The art is to recognize the students who think they can't participate, can't speak up, can't articulate their knowledge and somehow be able to bring them into the activity as a willing participant who ends up having a positive learning experience.
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