If I had to really narrow it down, I have three things I consider absolutely crucial to good teaching. First, you have to know your material well. If you don't have the technical, artistic and cultural knowledge of the dance, you have nothing to teach. You also need a good foundation in basic physiology & how it affects movement. This is vital for ensuring proper technique, preventing injury and for offering variations for students with a whole range of body issues. The third leg of the stool, I think is effective communication. Good teachers need to be able to listen to students, accurately perceive their actual needs, and communicate instructions, encouragement and corrections, often in a variety of different ways to meet different learning styles. Communication is so much more than knowing what to call something or having one way to describe a move or concept. I have been in too many classrooms where apparently well spoken, knowledgeable instructors have utterly failed to meet students needs because they don't take the time to find out what the actual needs are, or have made inappropriate assumptions about the students in the class.

I know that's horribly simplified, but I'm not all that good at condensing ;)

I teach what I consider to be Classic Oriental style