Good teaching is very much like good cooking.
An effective teacher is like a proficient chef. As a young man living on my own, I remember trying to replicate some of my grandmother s favorite dishes from the past. I followed the recipes that she left in the weathered cookbooks, but even though I practiced and measured carefully, I was never able to replicate her light crust or the heavenly French Canadian egg noodles that she used to call sliders. As the years have past, I have seen many good teachers and some that are not as effective. In many cases the less effective teachers have used similar text, subjects and even approaches.