What makes for good teaching?

I feel good teaching needs to be enjoyable to the students. If someone doesn't like what they are trying to learn it's going to take longer to learn. I know not everything can be fun, so sometimes students will have to suck it up. But day after day of the same style of lecture is boring. And in most cases not effective. We should be taught more of what we like, because often that's what we are good at. Since a young age we are mainstreamed into the same classes, there is no variety in anybody. And the people who don't have the luxury of liking those things, or don't have the mind for it, get left in the dust and flagged as inadequate.

I agree with Marie F. Hasset, writer of "What Makes A Good Teacher?", in that teachers need to be connected to their classroom. If a teacher only cares about getting the information across and that most students get it and not that every one of the students in their class understand what, and often why, information is important, they aren't doing a good enough job. Teachers should be able to convince at least a few people that whatever they are teaching is the most interesting thing in the world. They should love to teach.