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This question has been bothering me since I started teaching a couple years ago. In my head I have a pretty good idea what makes a good teacher, and I can sit in on a class and immediately tell whether a teacher is effective or not, but it’s still difficult to form an answer with which I’m completely satisfied. It was interesting to see Malcolm Gladwell’s take on this in the New Yorker: Most Likely to Succeed