Rich listens to students, uses eye contact and is extremely responsive. This is actually a good time for me to remember teaching tips because after three years only the strong ones come to mind. The best ones were from Stella Ting-Toomey and her intercultural awareness class. She really drove her points home. Her class was fun, our groups developed cohesiveness, and I still remember them.
Undergraduates especially see research and researchers so far removed.
It was wonderful to have a scholar share his work and his life passion, tell us about the background of the ideas and projects, help us critique it, etc. In fact, it is a wonderful way to model receiving criticism gracefully. I would like to see more professors take the lead in this area and assign outside work assignments as part of their curriculum. Another professor regularly bought in additional articles for use to read. Taking the time to make copies for all of us meant much to me.