While learning can occur without the benefit of teaching, teaching has no other purpose than to enable learning.
All faculty members have the obligation to teach well.
Good teaching is clearly necessary, worthwhile and valuable in its own right. It needs to be developed, recognized and rewarded. Scholarly teachers are aware of teaching alternatives and able to choose appropriately for the students in their classes. They engage in classroom assessment and evidence gathering, and are critical and reflective of their own practice. Teaching is not simply a matter of method and technique but of selecting, organizing, and transforming one's field so that it can be engaged and understood at a deep level by students.