I believe that all good teaching empowers students. It empowers them by providing basic foundational knowledge at a level which they can understand. It enables them to connect with the material, to question the material, to tolerate other viewpoints relative to the material. It enables them to articulate and to advocate their views of the material. I believe that all good teaching creates a comfort zone to allow intellectual ferment to take place. In so doing, good teaching reaches out to all students, whatever their culture or learning style. I want my students to be able to apply what they have learned. They should be able to analyze the arguments and viewpoints of others. They should be given the skills to allow them to synthesize new knowledge into what they have already learned. Students should no longer be passive consumers, but should critically evaluate what others are advocating before they accept it.

Good teaching integrates the material to be covered with the method of evaluation. If it is worth the effort to teach, it is worth the effort to develop methods to evaluate it.

Good teaching affects attitude as well as memory.

Good teaching stimulates and energizes learning. It motivates students to learn. I will never know everything; my role is to introduce the subject and to whet the studentsí desire to learn more. I learned about poetry because my grade 12 English teacher made it interesting; he didn't specifically teach me anything.

Good teaching takes advantage of teachable moments. I learned more about business economics when, in response to my query, my mother told me that the supermarket sold its meat to us for a price in excess of what it paid for it. A random universe became organized, organic.

I want to do more than to just "manage" diversity. I believe that diversities?including cultural, physical, learning?should be harnessed to take us all to a higher level. Law is beset with divisive schools such as "feminist legal theory" and "critical race theory" which, in their mature state, instead of advocating on behalf of the disadvantaged, attack what they perceive to be the oppressive majority. These divisive schools are thus resistant to the steps necessary to achieve inclusivity.

I believe that learning occurs when students are engaged. As a teacher, I must first stimulate their interest in the subject matter. I should limit the number of concepts I am trying to teach in any given time period. Rest and arousal need to be cycled. I will use a variety of teaching methods to teach each concept, approaching every idea from a variety of perspectives. Teaching must be the servant of learning?what I do is less important than what occurs inside the heads of the students.

A good salad contains vegetables of every colour of the rainbow thus ensuring that the widest possible variety of nutritional needs are met. The components of good teaching include motivation, content, context, feedback, evaluation, method, ethics, critical thinking, and skills.